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Kurdistan's Barzani issues decree to use
"Kurdish areas outside region" instead of "disputed
areas"
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Massoud Barzani, the president of Kurdistan region
of Iraq, Erbil, March 15, 2012. Photo: EPA
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Barzani decides to rename
the "disputed areas" to "Kurdish areas outside the
region"
December 14, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— President of
autonomous Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani decided
on Friday to use the word "Kurdish areas outside the
region" instead of the "disputed areas", which will
be decided upon the application of Article 140 of
the constitution.
The president considered that the abandon of Iraqi
officials to use "disputed areas" as a clear sign
that they intend not to apply the Article 140 of the
constitution.
He ordered all ministries and departments in the
region to commit to the decision.
Iraq’s president says the central government and
Kurdish leaders have
reached a deal
to ease a military standoff that began last month.
A statement issued by President Jalal Talabani’s
office Thursday says the accord between leaders in
Baghdad and the self-rule Kurdish region would
eventually lead to the withdrawal of both sides’
military forces from disputed northern areas.
Under the plan, local residents would oversee their
own security.
The deal appears to firm up a preliminary agreement
announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
last week.
Talabani gave no timetable for the deal to be
implemented.
Tensions between Baghdad and the Kurds spiked
following a decision by al-Maliki to form a new
military Dijla command to oversee security forces
bordering the self-ruled Kurdish region,www.ekurd.netbut
the Kurds say the move was unconstitutional.
The Dijla Operations Command was introduced by the
central government in June to be the main command of
the security and police in Kirkuk, Diyala and
Salahaddin – disputed territories that both Baghdad
and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) lay
claim to.
Massoud Barzani said on November 17, 2012, the
region was fully prepared to
defend itself,
after a skirmish between Iraqi forces and Kurdish
troops along their disputed internal border.
Iraq's Kurdistan region has
sent
reinforcements to a disputed area on November 24,
2012, where
its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi
army, a senior Kurdish military official said,
despite calls on both sides for dialogue to calm the
situation.
Iraq's government and autonomous Kurdistan on
December 13, 2012
agreed to
defuse a tense standoff between their troops by
gradually withdrawing them from disputed territories
along their internal border, a statement from Iraq's
President Jalal Talabani said.
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution is related to
the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk city
and other Kurdish areas outside Kurdistan region like Khanaqin.
The disputed areas a term used in accordance with
the constitutional Article 140 on Kirkuk and some
districts and counties in the provinces of Nineveh
and Diyala.
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