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Will Premier Nechirvan Barzani succeed in
uniting Kurdistan?
26.1.2012
By Baqi Barzani
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Nechirvan Barzani,
KDP Vice President and incoming Kurdistan Prime
Minister.
January 26, 2012
Winning public support and befriending dissidents is
the first most significant challenge of any
statesman.
Succeeding Kurdistan Regional Government KRG Prime
Minister Nechirvan Barzani has already embarked on
his mission by reaching out to his rivals in a bid
to further reinforce the structure of his cabinet as
well as diversify it by incorporating key opposition
leaders.
He visited Sulaimaniyah to mainly convene with
Nawshirwan’s Gorran which purportedly yielded
insufficient outcome; however, what bears more
substance is his initiation of incomparable
stratagem, encompassing eagerness in seeking
compromise, and firm belief in dialogue and
settlement of setbacks both peacefully and
multilaterally.
Unlike preceding Prime Ministers who mismanaged and
failed to satisfy the vast majority, Nechirvan
realizes that there are hard-hitting obstacles ahead
of him he has to overcome and a number of pledges he
is expected to deliver. Public demands can no longer
be overlooked and one way to best resolve it is
simply through direct association with multitude.
A simple free telephone line set up to listen to
public concerns and respond to their complaints can
connect him with many discontented citizens. Wise
counsels and fruitful criticisms by intellectual
members of Kurdish community in exile is another
essential theme that should not be avoided. It can
drastically help draw his immediate attention to
imperfections that need to be overhauled.
As Rizgar Khoshnaw, a Kurdish commentator for
EKurd.net asserts, it is some KRG employees working
for/under KRG’s President who mar his and his
administration’s reputation by misadvising him and
misreflecting the truths.
Nechirvan must act and serve in the capacity of a
nation’s premier, not as Kurdistan Democratic Party
KDP’s second in charge official. He has to set aside
his personal feuds and partisan interests and
mediate as a neutral arbitrator.
Everyone by now is aware of widespread corruption
that has tainted the image of Kurdistan. It is one
of the most contagious pestilences gradually
crippling our economy and society. Countless essays
have been compiled on this subject in both local and
foreign press.
In sequence of importance, other areas requiring
improvements and uphill struggles include:
Accelerated implementation of Article 140 2)
Establishment of an independent Kurdistan 3)
Coalescing all government ministries,www.ekurd.net
especially Ministry of Defense 4) Economic
propagation 5) Maintaining an independent judiciary
6 ) Improvement in Human Rights plight 7) Special
attention to Women Rights 8) Nursing Minority Groups
9) Creation of employment opportunities for the
myriad unemployed youths 8) Presence of free Press
in Kurdistan 10) and ultimately eliminating poverty.
Should Premier Nechirvan succeed in attaining the
above-cited goals, he has both turned his
antagonists into protagonists and protagonists into
protagonists.
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