Thursday, 26 December / 2 January 2012 15:18
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MP for the province of Kirkuk, Omar al-Jubouri, Thursday, the implementation of the recommendations of the Article 140 of the "dangerous project", and while critical of the Council of Ministers on the endorsement to cancel the decisions of the Committee on the north now defunct, called the Iraqi List, a rejection of the implementation of that article and not to continue its mark "suspicious" .
Omar al-Jubouri in a press conference held today at Parliament House and attended by "Alsumaria News", "Implementation of the recommendations of the Article 140 of the draft and dangerous to the people that put pressure on their representatives in the House of Representatives and the government to stand her face", criticizing the "approval of the Council of Ministers on one of the recommendations of the Committee the subject of research and decisions pertaining to the abolition of the Committee on the north dissolved. "
He Jubouri, a member of the Iraqi List, for his surprise "of the suspicious silence by the Iraqi fact that the project threatens its declared political, especially the masses of the Iraqi provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh, Diyala and Salah al-Din", calling it a "declaration of refusal to implement Article 140 explicitly."
Jubouri warned "the Iraqi List, the continued silence because it will make it vulnerable to rupture and the adjournment of audiences who are frustrated by" and threatened them to "take another position in the event insisted on its position."
Jubouri called the National Alliance to "pay attention to the risks and consequences of project implementation of Article 140 concurrent with the recent trends toward federalism, which constitute a serious encroachment on the country's unity, security and stability."
The Council of Ministers, decided (January 24, 2012) in its meeting held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to cancel all the decisions of the Committee on the north, which formed during the former Iraqi regime and of the city of Kirkuk.
And issued Affairs Committee since the eighties of the last century after its formation by the Revolutionary Command Council, many of the decisions given the discretion of the agricultural land of the Kurds and Turkmen in the provinces of Diyala and Nineveh and Kirkuk in particular.
The Commission, transfer of ownership of thousands of acres of land Kirkuk agricultural Arab expatriates, and that supported later in the nineties of the last century, the decisions of other Revolutionary Command Council, led by the former president Saddam Hussein to the confiscation of thousands of land from the province of Kirkuk, which was called by the then province of nationalization.
Following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime on the ninth of April 2003 the political blocs agreed to resolve this case under Article 140 of the Constitution, which is still the subject of implementation represents a major obstacle to political parties.
And Article 140 on the normalization of the situation in the province of Kirkuk and disputed areas in other provinces, Kninoy, Diyala, and a referendum the opinion of residents of those areas to determine the fate of their areas, both survival and independent administrative unit or attached to the Kurdistan Region or remain on its current status.
The government managed to implement some of the paragraphs of article, as compensation affected by the policies of the former regime and the application of the constitutional article, while not carried out the most important paragraphs a referendum.
While the Kurds strongly supported the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution, showing a section of the Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk and other areas, in protest at the implementation of the fear of possible annexation of the oil-rich province to the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Arabs accuse Kurdish parties to bring thousands of families to change the demography of Kirkuk, the Kurdish parties are with those families that are indigenous inhabitants of the province and the Iraqi government during the period of the previous regime expelled from the province, housing them with Arab families to increase the proportion of the Arab population there.
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