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Iraq: Parliament's speaker discusses
changing flag, article 140
10.1.2008
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January 10 2008
Baghdad, -- Speaker of the Iraqi parliament
Mahmoud al-Mashhadani on Thursday morning discussed
with members of the constitutional amendments
committee changing the Iraqi flag and article 140.
"Al-Mashhadani discussed with a number of members of
the constitutional amendments committee, including
Iyad al-Sameraei from the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF)
and Qassem Dawood from the Unified Iraq Coalition (UIC),www.ekurd.net
changing the Iraqi flag
and article 140 of the Iraqi constitution," VOI
correspondent inside the parliament said.
"The members presented their suggestions over the
two issues," he said.
According to the article, the dispute over Kirkuk
should be solved over three stages: normalization,
demographic consensus, and a referendum on the
status of Kirkuk as to whether it should remain an
independent province or be annexed to the Kurdistan
region.
Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani had
urged the central government in Baghdad to speed up
changing the Iraqi flag ahead of the Arab
parliamentarians conference to be hosted by Erbil in
February 2008.
Barzani affirmed that the Kurds "would never raise
the current flag because it still carries the three
stars symbolizing the (former) Baath Party."
VOI
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