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January 27, 2012 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
Kurdistan will be first to
be affected by conflict with Turkey: MP
Erbil: Kurdish parliament member Abdul Salam Berwari
said today that "the Kurdish region shall be the
first to be affected in the tensions remained
between Iraq and Turkey," pointing that more than
2000 Turkish companies are working in the region,
which shall be affected accordingly. "Kurdistan is
part of Iraq, neighboring Turkey, thus any tension
between the two sides will surely affect the Kurdish
region," Berwari told Aswat al-Iraq. He called on
Baghdad to pacify the tension with Turkey, and
"every Iraqi should support the stand of the
government and reject any foreign intervention in
its internal affairs". aswataliraq.info
Kurdish Government to
Monitor Drug Import
Erbil: A government agency should be created to
monitor the import and quality of pharmaceutical
drugs in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Kurdistan Regional
Government committee has recommended. Part of an
effort to combat corruption, the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) committee made the recommendations
following a four-month investigation into the import
and sales of expired medicine. The committee’s
report urges the government to punish companies or
government employees responsible for distributing
bad medicine. The committee has now prepared a final
report for the leaders of the on their findings.
In an interview with Rudaw, Omed Sabah, the
spokesman for the reform committee, said, “Other
nations have clear policies on (pharmaceutical)
drugs. Unfortunately, there is not this kind of
policy in Kurdistan Region.” According to Sabah,
more than 60 private companies in the Kurdistan
Region trade medicine and the region receives its
medical supplies from Iraq’s Ministry of Health.
Most of the drugs are imported, and Sabah maintained
that quality control is poor and drugs are not
thoroughly inspected at borders....rudaw.net
Efforts to free two
Peshmarga held by Syria
Erbil: Kurdish officials are making effort to have
two Kurdish defense guards, known as Peshmarga,
released after they were detained by Syrian border
guards when they mistakenly crossed into Syrian
territories on Monday. A source from the Directorate
of Asayish (Security) of Sinjar - south of Duhok
province near the Syrian border, declining to be
named because he was not authorized to speak to the
media told AKnews that “political and security
actors [without mentioning them] are communicating
with the Syrian side to release the two Peshmarga
members” “Progress in the negotiations may lead to
their release especially that these two Peshmargas
entered Syrian territories by mistake and not for
any other purposes. They were recently transferred
to the military base on the Syrian border and they
had lost the way” The two Peshmargas are from Kirkuk
province, on the eastern side of the Kurdistan
Region. Their military base is in Duhok province, on
the Syrian border, western part of the region.
According to the source, the two Kurdish soldiers
are being held in Syria’s Hasak city, on the border,
and are in a good condition. aknews.com
Govt. forms committee to
restore 400,000 acres to Kurds and Turkmen
Erbil: The Iraqi government will soon form a
committee to either restore confiscated Kurdish and
Turkmen lands in Kirkuk or compensate them. Speaking
to AKnews, Kheyrullah Hassan, Iraqi Trade Minister
(a Kurd) told AKnews that the minister will work to
annul nine orders by Saddam Hussein's deposed regime
under which some 400,000 acres of land owned by the
Kurds and Turkmen of Kirkuk Province were allocated
to the Ministries of Oil and Defense, and Arab
settlers in the late 1970s. On Tuesday the Council
of Ministers voted to annul these orders. Hassan
said the Council of Ministers will design a bill and
send it the Council of Representatives for approval
so that the Ministries of Oil and Defense who still
own the land can indicate how many acres they can
restore. For the people whose lands cannot be
restored, the government will compensate them.
aknews.com
Olympic Stadium renovation
Kirkuk: Turkish company Ava Sport is still
renovating the Olympic Stadium in Kirkuk, the oldest
stadium in the city. The reconstruction began last
summer, locals hope it will someday be ready to host
international matches. The stadium was built in 1982
for an Olympics that never happened. After the fall
of the former regime in 2003 at least 500 Kurds
displaced by Saddam Hussein's forced resettlement "Arabization"
policy returned to Kirkuk and settled in the
stadium. The families stayed in the ground for more
than seven years, only recently moving on. The
director of Youth and Sports of Kirkuk Jabbar
Mohammed Ibrahim said "They left the stadium after
the allocation of ten million dinars each by
President Jalal Talabani." The stadium refurbishment
is being done in two phases. First the stadium is
being comprehensively rebuilt. Phase two will
augment the facilities. Harbi Khalid from the
Ministry of Youth and Sports told AKnews: "The
Ministry in Baghdad has agreed to build a hotel
within the stadium for teams participating in
tournaments coming from outside the Province."...aknews.com
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