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Assyrian Congress objects Iraqi flag
change
26.1.2008
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January
26, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq', -- The
Assyrian Congress on Saturday expressed their
rejection of changes approved by the Iraqi
parliament to the national flag a week ago.
"Amidst all the political crises that threaten
Iraq's unity and destiny, the parliament has lost
all sense of priority and was involved in some
campaigns meant to be a red herring away from all
crucial matters in the Iraqi state," the Assyrian
Congress, a small group of ethnic Assyrian political
and cultural powers in Iraq, said in a statement.
"These changes in the Iraqi flag were made solely to please some Iraqi
parties," the statement noted, referring to Kurdish
demands in this respect. The congress appealed to
Iraqi national powers to "reconsider their positions
in the face of partisan, sectarian and ethnic
bargains and to adopt effective stances to save Iraq
from division attempts."
"Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani decided not to
raise the old flag with three stars,www.ekurd.net
because thousands of
Kurds were killed under this flag and asked the
Iraqi parliament and government to change it,"
Mohammad Mulla Qader said earlier last week.
Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani demanded
the parliament to hold a special session to take a
decision on raising the new Iraqi flag in Kurdistan
region, the head of Barzani's office said on
Thursday.
The Iraqi parliament approved changes in the
national red-white-black flag by removing the three
stars and retaining the words Allahu Akbar (God is
Great) in Kufi calligraphy.
The Assyrian Congress, one of small ethnic Iraqi
Assyrian parties, was founded in 2005 in preparation
for the January 2006 elections then. It is
headed by Ishaya Ishou. Assyrian parties in the
country are mostly participating in the autonomous
Iraqi Kurdistan region's government. Other Assyrian
parties include the Democratic Assyrian Movement,
the National Assyrian Party and Beit Nahrein Party.
VOI
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