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August 30, 2009 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
New Iraqi vice premier will
be Fuad Mahsum
Now that Barham Salih is the new premier of the
Kurdistan region, MP Fuad Mahsun of the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan will be the main candidate to
become the next Iraqi vice premier. This is what
Adil Berwari said, colleague of Fuad Mahsun in the
Kurdistan Alliance in the Iraqi parliament. He says
there is no official candidate yet, but this will be
announced by the new cabinet of the Regional
Government of Kurdistan (KRG) soon. Recently former
Iraqi vice premier Barham Salih resigned to become
the next Kurdish premier. There was speculation that
he would be replaced by Nechirvan Barzani (KDP), but
analysts say this is unlikely due to this limited
level of Arabic. Avesta Kurd reported that he might
take over the leadership of the KDP, because
president Massoud Barzani wants to focus on
different tasks.
The first Kurdish
ballerinas: Rudaw.net
Sulaimaniyah: Zhilya and Zhalya are twins (11) and
have started to go to a ballet schools with six
other girls since 2nd June 2009. Their group
consists of 8 girls in the ages of 10-11 years. This
is the first development of ballet in Kurdistan.
This style of dancing appeared in 1567 and gradually
developed in to the whole world and many ballet
schools were opened in Russia, France, England and
America. After more than five centuries ballet dance
came to Kurdistan. The first ballet school was
opened on 21 February 2009 in Sulaimaniyah by the
KRG Minister of Education. Rubar Ahmed, the head
master of the ballet school said they are recruiting
kids from six years age. She said they have started
recruiting people since 21 February 2009. But they
have opened the first ballet course on 2 June 2009.
This course consists of three groups; the first
group includes 17 students whose age was between 6-8
years, but group C includes 16 students. The
headmaster of the school said after finishing the
three months course the students can continue
learning and take daily practical and theoretical
lesson in spite of other lessons. After 12 years
studying in this school, the students will get
bachelor certificate in ballet...
Kurdish Parliament to
resume sessions
A parliamentarian from the Kurdistan Alliance (KA)
on Saturday said that the parliament of the
Kurdistan region is likely to resume sessions by the
middle of this week, adding that a new prime
minister and a deputy will be selected by the end of
this week. “The parliament’s recess ends in early
September and I expect the council to resume its
regular session by the middle of this week,” Shirwan
al-Haydari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Parliamentary committees will be set up before the
election of a new premier and a deputy, Haydari
noted. A spokesperson for the Kurdish president,
Fouad Hussein, said that Massoud Barazani will
assign the new prime minister and his deputy to form
the new government.
Goran: Maliki agrees to
deploy joint force in Mosul
Following recent terrorist attacks on several areas
in Mosul and arresting those behind the explosions,
there should be a tough need for having security
forces in those locations suffer from lack of
stability, Khasrow Goran Head of Fraternal List from
Ninawa provincial council reported. Iraqi PM Nouri
al-Maliki, Kurdistan Region President Massoud
Barzani and the commander of Coalition Forces in
Iraq General Odierno approved to form a triple
committee on deploying a joint force from Iraqi
army, Peshmerga and US troops at 16 points in Mosul,
said Goran in a statement to Hayat newspaper.
Kurdistan produces green
electricity: Rudaw.net
The electricity ministry with the participation of
two internal and foreign companies intends to
produce electricity from Kurdistan using sun and
wind energy. But due to the absence of data, it’s
impossible now to decide about the project, says
Dlshad Shakr, consultant of the minister of
electricity. ˝We need 5 million dollars for only one
megawatt electricity through sun energy and wind,
for that we must collect data˝. Twelve places had
been selected in the Kurdistan provinces to collect
information about them by the Zagros Company and a
German company for producing electricity in these
places along the four seasons of the year through
sun energy and wind, and one and half a year had
been allocated for research. The consultant added
˝we can not decide that we can produce the
electricity from sun energy and the wind or not till
these data have been collected˝. He thinks it could
endanger the health of the Kurdish population. The
ministry has allocated 2 millions and 500 thousands
dollars for this research and the collection of
information. The ministry is confident that the
research will be completed at the mentioned
period....
Talabani stresses need to
strengthen ties with Turkey
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani received an envoy of
the Turkish government and his accompanying
delegation in Baghdad on Saturday to discuss recent
Iraqi and regional developments, according to a
presidential release. “Talabani, during the meeting,
called for strengthening ties between Iraq and
Turkey relying on the historic and religious roots
binding the two neighbors,” read the release as
received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. For his part,
the Turkish official conveyed the heartfelt
condolences of the Turkish government and people for
the families of victims of the recent “terrorist”
attacks and also the death of Sayyid Abdulaziz
al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi
Council (SIIC). He also underlined Turkey’s support
for Iraq’s political process, praising efforts
exerted by President Talabani to activate
cooperation and expand relations between the two
countries to the good and common interests for both
sides and peace, stability and development for the
region as a whole.
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