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Iraq's Kurdistan president to help solve
Iraq's constitutional problems
19.7.2007 |
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Baghdad is awaiting Kurdistan president to help
resolve disputes over some points in the Iraqi
constitution
July
19, 2007
Baghdad, July 19, -- The Iraqi parliament's
constitutional amendments committee is waiting for
the arrival of Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud
Barzani in Baghdad to help resolve disputes over
some points in the Iraqi constitution, head of the
committee Hammam Hammoudi said on Thursday.
"The two points of dispute facing the constitutional
amendments committee are related to the (Iraqi)
president's powers and the implementation of article
140 pertaining to the situation in Kikruk," Hammoudi
said.
Article 140, the most controversial in the Iraqi
constitution, is related to the normalization of the
situation in Kirkuk, an important and mixed city of
majority of Kurds, Christians, Arabs and Turkmen.
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Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional
Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq' |
Kurds seek to include the city in the autonomous
Iraq's Kurdistan region, while Sunni Arabs, Turkmen
and Shiite Arabs are inclined to postpone 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.
Kirkuk lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region with Iraq, 250 km northeast of
Baghdad.
VOI
** Kirkuk city is a Kurdistani 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, its population
is a mix of majority Kurds and minority of Arabs,
Turkmen.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
about 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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