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Ministry of Oil Responsible for Kurdistan
Fuel Shortage - Media
monitor
3.5.2006
Press from 2.May.2006
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Ministry of Oil Responsible for Kurdistan Fuel
Shortage (Kurdistani
Nwe)
The private projects commission in Kurdistan said
Iraq's ministry of oil is responsible for the fuel
shortage. Dilshad Abdulrahman, head of the
commission, said fuel shortage issue exists only in
Kurdistan and the problem was solved in middle and
southern Iraq. He also said the Iraqi government
sets the budget for buying fuel for Kurdistan. The
commission has asked the Iraqi government to give
the Kurdistan Regional Government the funds so they
can provide fuel to Kurdistan. So far, they haven't
received an answer.
(Kurdistani Nwe
is issued daily by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.)
Hawlati and Awene Editors-in-Chief (Convicted)
(Hawlati)
Twana Osman, Hawlati editor-in-chief and Asos Hardi,
former editor-in-chief (of the independent weekly
newspaper) were sentenced to six months in prison
(but their sentences were commuted) and fined 75,000
dinars (50 dollars) on May 2. Omar Fatah, the
Kurdish prime minister (in Sulaimaniyah
administration) had sued them in November 2005 for
publishing incorrect information (in an article that
accused Fatah of firing two civil servants for
turning off his private phone because the bill had
not been paid.) Several journalists attended the
sentencing.
(Hawlati online
is an online news service by Hawlati newspaper.)
Turkmans Ask for 10 Per Cent of Ministerial Posts
(Al-Mashriq)
The Turkmans said they are being marginalised in
negotiations to form the new government. Prominent
Turkman figures asked for 10 per cent of the
ministerial posts in the next government. Al-Adala
party leader Anwer Beerekdar said Turkmans were
purposefully marginalized to limit their role in
establishing Iraq's political future. He said he was
surprised that the new cabinet could be called a
national unity government when the Turkmans do not
have their rights (to representation) in the
government. He noted that the constitution states
that the Turkmans represent the third-largest
community after Arabs and Kurds and they are
entitled to 10 per cent of ministerial seats because
of their size.
(Al-Mashriq is
published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media
and Cultural Investments.)
(Mutlaq): Integrating Militias Into Armed Forces
is Dangerous
(Al-Iraq al-Yoom)
National Dialogue List leader Saleh al-Mutlaq said
incoming prime minister Noori al-Maliki's call to
integrate the militias into the army and armed
forces was a dangerous issue that all should (speak
out against.) He said he has conditions to
participate in the next government. Mutlaq said the
ministries of defence, interior, and intelligence
must be run by independent national figures who can
work independent of corruption that (he said) is
overwhelming the ministries. (Sunni Arab leaders,
including Mutlaq, are concerned that Shia militias
are working with the predominantly Shia security
forces to persecute Sunni Arabs.)
(Al-Iraq al-Yoom
is a weekly newspaper issued by Isra Shakir.)
UIA: No Problems Facing the Government's
Formation
(Al-Adala)
United Iraqi Alliance MP Shirwan al-Waili said there
is no political crisis affecting the government's
formation. He said there are negotiations and
different points of view but they do not necessarily
constitute problems. Waili said the different views
are natural outcomes of the current unstable
political atmosphere and Iraq's new
constitutional-based government. He maintained that
there is optimism that the government will be formed
within the time limit. He said the UIA will hold the
ministries of oil and interior.
(Al-Adala is
issued daily by the Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq.)
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