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Kurdish ruling parties have frankly
declared that they have no proposals for reforms in
Kurdistan: Dr. Shaho Saeed
22.2.2011
Translated from Sbeiy.Com website
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The ruling parties of the region have frankly
declared that they have no proposals for reforms in
Kurdistan, Dr. Shaho Saeed says
February 22, 2011
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Representatives of
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kurdistan Democratic
Party, Gorran (Change) Movement, Kurdistan Islamic
Union and Kurdistan Islamic Assembly gathered at the
Government Council headquarters to discuss the
situation in Kurdistan Region and in particular the
recent developments in Sulaimaniyah. Afterward the
Prime Minister, Dr. Barham Salih, in a press
conference announced that the meeting was a good
start for a national dialogue. He also added that
Gorran Movement insisted on their 7 demands as
declared in their statement of 29th January.
Dr. Shaho Saeed, member of Kurdistan Parliament and
one of the delegates representing Gorran Movement
stated that “Gorran Movement have never shrink from
the principal of dialogue.
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Dr Shaho Saeed, member of Kurdistan Parliament and
one of the delegates representing Gorran Movement |
Accordingly, we took
part in this meeting, the discussions in which
centred around two main themes. The first theme was
concerning the wave of protests that have engulfed
wide areas of Kurdistan region. The second theme was
concerning the political crises that underlined the
wave of protests.”
He added that “We in Gorran believe that the events
are the consequences, the cause of it is the chronic
crisis that has been festering for years, despite of
our repeated warning and submitting several
proposals to address the crisis, including the
radical proposals that we submitted in August last
year to reform the political system of government in
Kurdistan region, which echoed the election
manifesto upon which Gorran Movement fought the
Parliamentary elections of 25th July 2009.”
Dr. Saeed insisted that “We have said over and over
that the government should address the needs of the
public before those of the political parties. It is
very important that they listen to the concerns of
the people before they do to those of the political
parties. We, in Gorran Movement, made it clear that
our demands are not Gorran’s demands but are the
people’s demands. We believe that the government
should listen to these demands along with the
demands of the individual political parties. And
from this point of concern we reiterated our 7
demands and explained that this government of
Kurdistan Region, which we believe have failed,
should resign and to be replaced be a transitional
provisional government that can pave the way for a
genuine election free from falsifications. We also
insisted the provisional government should be given
the mandate during its’ 3 months tenure to
reorganise the armed forces such as the Asayish
(Security Forces), Police, Peshmerga (Kurdistan
Army) Zanyary (PUK’s Intelligent Services) and
Parastin (KDP Intelligent Services) and render it
National Forces as appose to partisan organisations.
We believe that the reorganisation,
renationalisation and professionalization of these
forces would be achieved through two formulae; the
first formula is to change the function of these
forces from the function of defending the interest
of the political party to the defence of the
security of the homeland and the people of
Kurdistan. The second formula is to replace the
directors and executive layer of these forces with
independent, professional and qualified individual
and not appointees of political parties. If the
transition al government is able to achieve that
then it will be able to oversee the running of a
bona-fide election.”
He also added “We also argued at the meeting that we
should reach an agreement in the immediate future to
redraft the constitution of Kurdistan Region within
a given time frame and amend those laws that have
secured the majority threshold in the Parliament but
still exert adverse effect on the political system.
We also renewed our demand for the restoration of
the ownership of all of the public and private
properties that have either been arrogated by the
political parties or by individual associated with
these parties, or been appropriated in return to
very low prices.”
Dr. Saeed explained, in connection to the
possibility of emergence at the meeting of an accord
and a common understanding that merit further
discussions that “in fact there was some form of
understanding began to emerge when we argued that
the events are only consequences and we should
tackle the causes that underpins this crisis that
persisted in Kurdistan. If we eradicated corruption
then people’s protest against it would dissipate.
But we noticed that the other parties,www.ekurd.netespecially
the two ruling parties, were more concern with
containing the current situation. But we pointed out
that we have come to attend a political meeting that
is searching for political solutions and not a
security assemblage. None of us in this meeting is a
security officer or an army general to discuss these
matters. We are politicians representing political
parties and we ought to discuss political
agreements. The security matters are primarily the
concern of the government and the ruling parties who
are responsible for the safety of the protestors and
to listen to their demands.
In reply to the enquiry whether if they have agreed
upon further meeting of this kind, Dr. Saeed
insisted that” “We have not agreed on any meeting
such as the one we had today. We asked them that,
just as we in Gorran Movement have our proposals to
resolve the crisis, they as political parties should
also submit their own proposed agenda. But they have
frankly stated that they have no proposals for
reforms in Kurdistan. The Prime Minister even
elaborated that probably no serious efforts for
reforms would be made in Kurdistan Region in the
next 6-12 months.”
Translated from www.Sbeiy.Com website
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