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Iranian Kurdistan: Eradicating Mines
6.12.2007
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December
6, 2007
The Hague, -- The Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan has signed teh Deed of Commitment, a
document that symbolises their opposition to
landmines and commits them to undertake mine removal
and awareness programmes.
Representatives of The Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan (PDKI), Geneva Call, and the Unrepresented
Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) were all
present in Geneva on 04 December 2007 to witness the
PDKI officially sign Geneva Call’s Deed of
Commitment.
The Deed of Commitment is an important document as
it provides a means for Non-State Actors (NSA) to be
included in the campaign against landmines.
Currently, only internationally recognized states
are permitted to sign the Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa
Convention),www.ekurd.net
leaving NSAs and De
Facto States unable to demonstrate their opposition
to this form of weaponry that indiscriminately
targets civilian populations and continues to affect
people long after the conflict has ended.
The signature of the PDKI to the Deed of Commitment
is an important event that expresses the Iranian
Kurdish community’s opposition to the placement of
landmines in their region and places pressure on the
Iranian Government to make similar commitments
through the Mine Ban Treaty.
As many UNPO Members suffer extensively from the
threat of landmines, UNPO strongly supports this
landmine ban campaign and works to highlight the
devastating and indiscriminate effects anti-personal
mines have on entire communities.
Several other UNPO Members have already signed the
Deed of Commitment, including Chin State, Nagalim,
and Iraqi Kurdistan. The addition of Iranian
Kurdistan to this list reflects UNPO’s commitment on
the eradication of landmines, as expressed in the
2006 UNPO General Assembly Joint Resolution
Concerning Antipersonnel Landmines.
Speaking on the signature of Iranian Kurdistan, the
UNPO General Secretary Mr. Marino Busdachin stated
that “it is with great honour that I would like to
communicate to Mr. Hijri [Secretary-General of the
PDKI] how pleased I am to learn that the Democratic
Party of Iranian Kurdistan has committed itself to
renouncing the use of anti-personnel mines and has
signed the Deed of Commitment against their use.www.ekurd.net
I wish the PDKI and the
Iranian Kurdish community all the best on their
valuable commitment”.
unpo org
Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Îranę or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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KDPI
The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hîzbî Dęmokiratî Kurdistanî Ęran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
More about KDPI- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
The present leader of the organisation is Haji
Ahmadi. According to the Washington Times, half the
members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
their teens, and one of the female members of the
leadership council is Gulistan Dugan, a psychology
graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
be on an equal level with men in leadership
positions.
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