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Friday February 24, 2012
Ministry of Peshmerga and the United Nations sign a memorandum of understanding to engage the Peshmerga in civil action
Author: RS Editor: SS Friday 24 شباط 2012 06:21 GMT
Alsumaria News / Dohuk
announced the Ministry of Peshmerga, the Kurdistan Region, on Friday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations aims to train members of the Peshmerga veterans to work on civil projects. statement said the ministry had received "Alsumaria News", a copy of "The Ministry of Peshmerga and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed a memorandum of understanding, aimed to train members of the peshmerga veterans to engage in civil works. " The statement added that "the program includes members of the Peshmerga, who are outside the service of the armed forces", pointing out that "the program supports the establishment of small projects for members of the Peshmerga veterans to improve their living conditions. The Iraqi authorities decided after 2003 conversion service system in its battalions from mandatory to voluntary, and applies this procedure also to the Peshmerga forces that have been recognized according to the fifth paragraph of Article 121 of the Iraqi Constitution. It is noteworthy that the KDP and the PUK and the two parties co-Kurdistan Region will join more than 120 thousand members of the Peshmerga, and trying to lead the Peshmerga now find a solution to the problem of the large number of these forces through the referral of thousands of its members to retire, and causing the remaining, including the government of the region rather than enroll them parties, in order to combine the forces of defense system of Iraq to be financed from the the country's budget.
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