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ERBIL,
Kurdistan-Iraq, March 26, 2006 (AFP) - Iraqi
Kurdistan's President Massoud Barzani asked leaders
of the two main Kurdish parties to form a single
government for the autonomous region in the north of
the country.
"It is a historic moment for the Kurds of Iraq who
need to unify their ranks," said Nijirvan Barzani,
who will serve as Kurdistan's prime minister after
being asked to form the next government.
Nechirvan of Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)
will be assisted by Omar Fattah of the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the other major party in
the north, which is headed by Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani.
On January 21, the heads of the two parties signed
an agreement paving the way for a single government
in the autonomous region which has long been split
between the two rival parties.
A year earlier, the Kurds elected a single
parliament of a 111 members to serve four years for
all three provinces in the zone.
The accord does not bring total unity to the
autonomous region, however, and the respective
departments of the interior, finance, justice and
the peshmerga militias will not be fused.
The KDP controls the provinces of Erbil and Dohuk
while the PUK administers Sulaimaniyah.
AFP
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