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Any decision on article 140 should be
taken by Kurds: Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani
10.12.2007
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December
10, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq',--
President of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani
said on Monday that any resolution on article 140 of
the constitution should be recommended by the
Kurdish people.
This came during his meeting with a U.S. delegation,
headed by the diplomat David Pierce.
"The president also highlighted the negative
repercussions in Kurdistan because of the delay in
implementing this article," according to a statement
released on the Kurdish government's Web site.
"The two sides discussed a mechanism of dealing with
this article in the future, as well as the legal and
constitutional issues," the statement also said. |
Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional
Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq' |
Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution relates to the
normalization of the situation in Kirkuk, an
important and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen,
Christians, and Arabs. Kurds seek to include the
city in the autonomous Iraq's Kurdistan region,
while Sunni Arabs,www.ekurd.net
Turkmen, and Shiite
Arabs oppose the incorporation.
The article currently stipulates that all Arabs in
Kirkuk be returned to their original locations in
southern and central Iraqi areas, and formerly
displaced residents returned to Kirkuk.
VOI
Kirkuk city is a
Kurdish city
and it lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region and it is not under the full
control of Kurdistan Regional Government
administration, the population is a mix of majority
Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and Turkmen.
lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
www.ekurd.net
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up their
homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
Based on Iraq's Constitution a referendum is to be
held in late 2007 to decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be annexed to the safe
semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
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