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April
30, 2012 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
Kurdistan President Barzani
leaves for UAE Annual Investment Meeting
Erbil: President of the Kurdistan Region Massoud
Barzani will travel to UAE on MOnday with a Kurdish
delegation to attend the country's Annual Investment
Meeting (AIM). Spokesperson for the Kurdistan Region
Presidency Umed Sabah confirmed Barzani's
participation in AIM, which will be held from May
1-3. The delegation includes head of the Department
of Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa, Minister of
Trade and Industry Sinan Çelebi along with dozen of
Kurdish investors. AIM will include a conference,
site visits, country presentations, a networking
roundtable, workshops and an exhibition. aknews.com
Turkish shelling resumes on
Kurdish border areas
Erbil: Turkish troops last night bombed areas close
to Hmazinan town in the Kurdish-majority Hakkari
province, southeast of the country, said the Kurdish
People's Defense Force. The force is the armed wing
of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A news agency
close to the PKK released a statement saying that
Turkish forces yesterday evening used mortar and
artillery to shell Siro Hill that borders the
Kurdistan Region. The PKK said that it has called
for a ceasefire to show good intentions eight times
since the Justice and Development Party took power
in 2002, adding that all calls were ignored.
aknews.com
Disease fears halt import
of US cows to Kurdistan
Erbil: The Ministry of Agriculture and Water
Resources in the Kurdistan Region has decided to
stop importing US cows due to the spread of prion
diseases in the states. The ministry's director of
animal resources Ramazan Mohammed said: "After
spreading prion diseases in the US, the ministry
decided to ban importing US cows to Kurdistan.
"There's no indication to confirm the existence of
the diseases in the Kurdistan Region," added the
official. The Ministry of Agriculture in the US
previously announced the spread of the diseases
among cattle in the country. Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as
prion diseases, are a group of progressive
conditions that affect the brain and nervous system
of many animals, including humans. aknews.com
Sulaimaniyah court frees
activist, gives life sentence to another
Sulaimaniyah: The Sulaimaniyah court decided on
Thursday to free an activist, while gave a life
sentence to another one, a source from the court
said. "The court released Ibrahim Kaka Aha, who has
been detained four months ago, for being accused of
encouraging local residents to open fire on
policemen during protests in the city in March
2011," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The court found the detainee not guilty and freed
him," the source added. "It gave another activist (B.N)
20 years behind bars after blaming him for shooting
policemen during the protest," he added. Several
demonstrations were staged in Sulaimaniyah in
February and March 2011 calling for political and
social reforms, which witnessed acts of violence,
during which scores were killed or wounded. Human
Rights Watch had said five days ago that Kurdistan
authorities should end their widening crackdown on
peaceful protests in northern Iraq. The authorities
should hold accountable those responsible for
attacking protesters and journalists in Erbil and
Sulaimaniyah since April 17, 2011, including opening
fire on demonstrators and beating them severely, it
added. aswataliraq.info
Baghdad to celebrate
Kurdish culture week
Baghdad: The Baghdad Capital of Arab Culture 2013
initiative will include a week to celebrate the
Kurdish culture, undersecretary of Iraqi culture
ministry said on Wednesday. Fawzy al-Atroushi's
statements came during a special festivity on the
occasion of the 114th anniversary of the
establishment of Kurdish press. "A week will be
allocated among the 22-week initiative for the
Kurdistan region, in addition the project of the
establishment of a cultural center of Faili Kurds in
Baghdad after the rule made by the Federal Court in
Baghdad to consider their suffer during the former
regime as genocide," he added. aswataliraq.info
VP, chief of al-Taghier
bloc review relations between Baghdad, Erbil
Sulaimaniyah: Iraq's Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi
discussed on Thursday with Head of al-Taghier bloc
Nawshirwan Mustapha the latest developments in Iraq
and relations between Baghdad and Erbil. "The vice
president, who is a leading figure of the Supreme
Iraqi Islamic Council, visited Nawshirwan Mustapha
in Sulaimaniyah, and discussed with him the latest
political developments in the country and the recent
escalation between Kurdistan and the federal
government," a media source told Aswat al-Iraq news
agency. President Jalal Talabani had met with
President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Massoud
Barzani, on Wednesday to discuss the latest
developments in Iraq and the ways to solve them.
Iraq is passing through a continued political crisis
since last December when Hashimi was charged with
terrorism and the attempt to demote deputy premier
Saleh al-Mutlaq, both leading member in Iraqiya
bloc, headed by Iyad Allawi. Maliki was charged by
Iraqiya and the Kurdish Alliance of unilaterally
control the government and discarding other
partners. Moves in the parliament are underway to
have a move to limit the duration of the premiership
in two rounds to prevent Maliki win a third round in
government....aswataliraq.info
Animal rights seminar for
Duhok students
Duhok: The Kurdistan Organization of Animal Rights
Protection (KOARP) last week presented a seminar for
students of junior Bezarah in Duhok province. The
event, led by chairman of the organization Dr.
Sulaiman Saeed, focused on animal rights and welfare
in the Kurdistan Region and how to apply such
rights. Saeed also discussed the problems and
challenges faced by animals in both Iraq and the
region. He touched on the role KOARP plays in the
protection of breeding and educating people on the
principles of animal rights. At the end of the
seminar and after seeing pictures of animal abuse
and neglect, students promised to protect animals in
the future. aknews.com
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