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Kurdistan parliament to debate new Iraqi
flag next week
24.1.2008
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January
24, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq', --
Upon
request from
Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani, the
Kurdish parliament will hold a special session next
week to discuss the issue of raising the new Iraqi
flag over the regional government buildings, a
parliamentary media source said on Thursday.
"The parliament will hold a special session in mid
next week to discuss the raising of the new national
Iraqi flag beside the Kurdish flag in the region,"www.ekurd.net
a media advisor to the
parliament's speaker, Tariq Johar, said.
On Tuesday, the Iraqi parliament voted by majority
on 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 change. |
Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional
Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq' |
The voting came
following a proposal to remove the three stars from
the flag and retain the Allahu Akbar phrase in green
Arabic Kufi calligraphy.
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 added Allahu
Akbar to the flag a few months before the outbreak
of the 1991 Gulf War.
In September 2006, the Kurdistan Regional Government
(KRG) banned the raising of the national Iraqi flag
beside the Kurdish flag on state-run buildings,
raising tensions on the Iraqi domestic political
scene.
VOI
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