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Kurdistan's Parliament ends recess to
discuss border shelling by Iran and Turkey
29.8.2007
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August
29, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
The Parliament of Iraq's Kurdistan region held on
Tuesday an extraordinary session to discuss the
Iranian and Turkish shelling of the regions'
borders.
The session started with chairmanship of the
Parliaments' Speaker Adnan al-Mufti, by standing one
minute to mourn victims of Sinjar bombings, where
800 were killed and injured.
The session focused on discussing the recent Iranian
and Turkish shelling, which forced hundreds of
residents to move away, in addition to causing
material damage inside the border villages.
The session was attended by Sulaimaniyah Governor
Dana Ahmed Majid and Kurdish Interior Minister
Othman Haji Mahmoud and Minister of Internal Affairs
Karim Sinjari. |
Kurdistan's Parliament |
Iran has been shelling border areas in Qalaat Diza,
135 km northwest of Sulaimaniyah, Haj Omran, 147 km
northeast of Erbil, and Penjwen district for three
weeks now under the pretext of tracking down PEJAK
fighters, Iranian Kurds who oppose the Iranian
government.
Meanwhile in Baghdad Iraq's government on Tuesday
demanded Iran stop shelling Kurdish
areas inside Kurdistan region, Iraq's northeastern border,
warning that relations would be hurt, the Iraqi
Foreign Ministry said.
Iraqi Kurdish officials have complained about
cross-border shelling from neighbouring Iran since
the middle of the month.
Cross-border skirmishes occasionally occur as Iraq's
neighbours Turkey and Iran combat Kurdish separatist
rebels operating from bases in Iraq's mountainous
northern region of Kurdistan.
Turkey, on the other hand, was shelling border areas
in the northern Iraq province of Duhuk also under
the pretext of fighting members of imprisoned leader
Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The 111-seat Iraqi Kurdistan parliament is composed
of two main blocs: the green bloc of the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (PUK), a party that is led by
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and the yellow bloc
of Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barazani's
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in addition to
other blocs representing Kurdish parties.
The parliamentary recess starts on Aug 1, 2007, to
continue until September 1, 2007.
VOI
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