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New Iraqi flag to be raised in Kurdistan
22.1.2008
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January
22, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq', --
The new Iraqi flag, adopted by the parliament, will
be raised throughout Iraq's Kurdistan region, a
member in the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
political bureau said on Tuesday.
This came as a first official Kurdish response to
the decision taken by the Iraqi parliament to
approve changing the Iraqi flag.
"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. |
New Iraqi flag will be raised in Kurdistan region |
"At least the parliament agreed to change it and the
Kurdish leadership is satisfied now. It will be
raised throughout the province," he added.
The Iraqi parliament voted by majority on Tuesday
over a draft to modify the nation's flag by removing
the three stars and keeping the words Allahu Akbar,
or God is Great.
"Some 110 members out of 165 present members
approved the flag change," MP Iman Hamid said.
"The voting came upon a proposal to remove the three
stars from the Iraq flag and retaining the Allahu
Akbar words in green Arabic Kufi calligraphy," she
said.
The current Iraqi flag has three colors - red, white
and black - with three green stars symbolizing the
dissolved Baath Party of the former regime.
The regime of Saddam Hussein had added Allahu Akbar
to the flag months before the outbreak of the 1991
Gulf War.
The Iraqi parliament had debated during the past
couple of weeks the first and second readings of a
draft to change the national flag.
VOI
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