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Kurdistan President urges parliament to
hold special session on new Iraqi flag
24.1.2008
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January
24, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq', --
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 president urged the Kurdish parliament on
Wednesday to hold a special session on raising the
new flag in the region," Fouad Hussein said.
The Iraqi parliament had 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.
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. |
Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional
Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq' |
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.
Mohammad Mulla Qader, a member in the Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) political bureau,www.ekurd.net
had said on Tuesday that
the new Iraqi flag will be raised throughout Iraq's
Kurdistan region.
"Kurdish President Massoud Barzani decided not to
raise the old flag with three stars, because
thousands of Kurds were killed under this flag and
asked the Iraqi parliament and government to change
it," Qader added.
"At least the parliament agreed to change it and the
Kurdish leadership is satisfied now. It will be
raised throughout the province," he noted.
VOI
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