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Iraq's Kurdistan president rejects
understanding pact by Iraqi parties
14.1.2008
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January 14, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq', --
Iraq's Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani
refused the understanding memorandum saying that
Kurds insist on implementing Article 140 that has
been adjourned for six months according to a
proposal by the United Nations.
Barazani noted that attempts against the
Constitution article will not work as those who seek
to form an alliance against the Article were against
Iraq’s Constitution, still, they won’t reach their
aim, he added.
Barzani who has met Italian Deputy Foreign Minister
and Vice President of the ruling party Giovanni
Vernetti, praised the role of the United Nations in
implementing Article 140 and affirmed that as long
that the United Nations are involved,www.ekurd.net
opposing attempts will
not work. |
Massoud Barzani, the President of the autonomous Regional
Government of Kurdistan 'Iraq' |
For his part, Iraqi Bloc MP Ayad Jamal Din affirmed
to Alsumaria that the alliance announced recently is
not targeted against any party especially Kurds,
while stressing that Iraq’s wealth should be in
government’s hand.
Several Shiite and Sunni political factions
united Sunday to pressure the Kurds
over control of oil and the future of the Iraqi
Kurdish city of Kirkuk, which Kurdistan wishes to
annex to its self-ruled Kurdistan region in the
north.
The budding front, which includes onetime enemies
such as Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr and former
Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's secular faction,www.ekurd.net
believes Iraq should
have a strong central government.
In contrast, the Kurds and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi
Council, a major Shiite party, have championed a
federal system that would give a limited role to the
national government and greater powers to the
regions.
alsumaria tv
Kirkuk city is a
Kurdish city
and it lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region, the population is a mix of
majority Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and
Turkmen. lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up their
homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
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