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October 30, 2009 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
10 Kurdish MPs retire
illegally
Erbil:10 MPs working in the Kurdish parliament took
42.000 dollars pension for six months, but they are
not retired yet. Recently the second Kurdish cabinet
was formed by the Prime Minister Barham Salih. A
Kurdish MP who preferred to remain anonymous told
Rudaw: “When we retire, each of us get 42.000
dollars as a pension for six months, as a ‘respect
for services’, but 9 MPS of the Kurdistani list [KDP
& PUK] and a MP of the Gorran list, took the money
without retiring.” The MP confronted the MPS. “I
told them: don’t take the money. This is a shame.
But they ignored it and took it. Some of them didn’t
take the money from the banks, out of fear for the
journalists and media, but the money is now on their
bank account!” Rudaw net
Sulaimaniyah reads more
than elsewhere in Iraq
Sulaimaniyah: Youth in Sulaimaniyah, in Kurdistan
Region, top the chart of readership in Iraq,
according to a study conducted by the country’s
Ministry of Sports and Youth. According to the
results, only 21.2 percent of Iraqi youth read
frequently. The study found that in Sulaimaniyah
52.1 percent of young people surveyed were regular
readers while readers in Erbil, capital of Iraq’s
Kurdistan Region came on the second rank. Third was
the Kurdish city of Duhok with 18.7percent, while
youth in Diyala Province came last with only 9.1
percent of regular readers among the youth. The
survey was conducted in 20 days in all of Iraq’s 18
provinces and 19,600 people between the ages of
10-30 years participated in it. Aknews com
PUK holds plenum in
Sulaimaniyah
The 4th plenum of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
started Thursday evening in the city of Sulaimaniyah
with the participation of President Jalal Talabani.
“The first day witnessed a reading of the political
report by the general secretary and a detailed
explanation of the political condition on the local,
regional and international levels,” a member of the
PUK told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “A number of
committees were established to review the PUK’s
local system,” he noted. A total of 1200 figures
took part in the plenum with the absence of the al-Taghieer
(Change) List. The Plenum will continue until
Saturday (Oct. 31), and several recommendations are
expected to be issued at the end of the Plenum.
KRG opens representations
in Italy, Germany and Australia
According to directions of Kurdistan Region
President Massoud Barzani to establish relations
with foreign states, three representations of
Kurdistan Regional Government were opened in Italy,
Germany and Australia. Head of KRG Foreign Affairs
Department Falah Mustafa said that this step comes
as a continuation of the openness policy towards the
world states on bases of joint interests.
Austria seeks stronger ties
with Kurdistan – ambassador
Austrian ambassador to Iraq Franz Horlberger, who is
currently visiting Iraqi Kurdistan, said that his
government is ready to support the region’s cabinet
and to strengthen relations between the two sides.
“The ambassador is contented over this visit,” said
a release posted on Thursday on the web site of the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). It said that
Horlberger stressed the impotence of enhancing
Austrian-Kurdish relations.
Sulaimaniyah International
Fair to be inaugurated next month
On November 11th 2009, the Sulaimaniyah 5th
International Fair will be inaugurated by the Iraqi
American Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Tasluja
area in Sulaimaniyah province, the spokesman of the
fair Aras Karim Marif told PUKmedia. Around 222
local and foreign companies from Kurdistan region
and lots of countries across the world are expected
to participate in the Sulaimaniyah International
Fair. The fair will be continued until November
14th, he added.
12th Division's battalion
to be deployed to kirkuk by Iraqi PM's decision
Brigadier Sherzad Mofari Chief of kirkuk Police told
PUKmedia that they, as Kirkuk police, are strongly
against deployment of the 12th Iraqi Army Division's
battalion to the city by the Iraqi PM's decision,
since the security situation in the province is
firmly under control of the Kirkuk Police Forces.
He added that he sees a political agenda behind this
move.
Sulaimaniyah Tunnel to open
in November
Sulaimaniyah: A strategic tunnel in the city of
Sulaimaniyah, eastern Kurdistan Region, will open in
the beginning of November, reveals a source from the
project. “The Museum Tunnel, on Salem Street, will
officially open in the beginning of November, thus
reducing traffic on the city’s main boulevard,” says
Anwar Mahmoud, supervisor and engineer at the
project. The Museum Tunnel, near Sulaimaniyah’s
Museum, cost US$10 million and is designed by the
Lebanese Dar Al-Handasa Company and built by Turkish
Yozlar Company. “The necessity of the project comes
as the city has become too crowded around the
downtown area. Salem Street, where the tunnel is
located, is Sulaimaniyah’s main road and its prime
business district,” Explains Mahmoud. According to
him the tunnel-project aims at decreasing traffic
congestions in the centre of the city. The project
started on August 4 and will be implemented within
90 days of its start-date.
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