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Kirkuk: Article 140 undecided spark for "obstructing" the implementation of projects
25/02/2012 16:36
Kirkuk, February 25 (Rn) - Local residents said that in Kirkuk, Article 140, kept the oil-rich city in the cycle of political crises which led to the "blocking" the implementation of several projects. But others saw that equation reversed and said that services will not be available until after the resolution. and you need the oil-rich Kirkuk to the funds and is still suffering severely from the slow pace of reconstruction in the conflict upon between Baghdad and Erbil. And lacks the city for many service projects and are suffering from a crisis in the provision of housing and electricity. and the Iraqi constitution, enacted in 2005 and won the approval of about 80 percent of Iraqis who took part in the referendum which to develop a road map through the Article 140 to resolve the dispute over the disputed areas. and start the first stages of the application of Article normalize the situation there to the pre-application policies, demographic change and then conduct a census in preparation for the final stage a referendum on the fate of those areas to determine the dependence on the administrative territory of Kurdistan or Baghdad government of the Federal. and was scheduled to be completed by the implementation stages of the article at the end of the year 2007, but political and security problems experienced by Iraq in those years prevented it. Observers say that the disputed areas between Arbil and Baghdad's biggest challenge in Iraq and seem to fear the outbreak of the conflict between its components. And live in those areas a mixture nationalist Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen as well as a religious minority is Christian. says minimum thanked an activist in the field of human rights, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) "Frankly, I would say that the implementation of Article 140 is important (for Kirkuk). implementation means that the political problems will be solved . solved if the political problems mean that the services will be available. " and accused the Kurds in Baghdad, the federal government of stalling in the application of the material. This file is the most outstanding problems between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government. called citizen named for Jubouri local authorities in Kirkuk to provide services and pay attention to the population away from political matters. said (Rn) "have nothing to do with rule 140. implemented or not does not matter as much as ( What concerns us) to provide services and resolve problems of the citizens in all regions of Kirkuk. " He said, "because of this article there are a lot of projects hampered implementation. because they (officials) they fail to Kirkuk because it is a conflict zone (between Arbil and Baghdad)." and stresses the Kurds and their side Parties Turkoman and some Arabs the need to apply the constitutional article to resolve the dispute over the province but the parties to Turkoman and Arab refuse the application and says that the article has expired with the end of the period specified for their implementation. and was the former Iraqi regime, which dropped in 2003 at the hands of international forces led by America, has conducted demographic changes in areas of mixed nationalist in favor of Arabs at the expense of the Kurds in Kirkuk, Nineveh, Diyala and Salah al-Din. , says citizen Turkmen named Junaid Abbas's (Rn) "status service in Kirkuk, now better than before. hope more and stay away from the problems of politicians if on article 140 or more. We want electricity, water, and appointments and the distribution of rights equally. " says Haji Karim, a Kurd, and owns a store a scrap (Rn) "Why do you ask such questions to us? go and Atrahoha officials. Ask them if interested citizen, or their personal interests." "We want to live and provide for the summit to live for our children. If it speaks to Article 140 will provide the services and would solve the problems in Kirkuk are welcome, its implementation, "said Karim. Kirkuk, officials and various Perigord opinion the issue of provision of services and its relation to Article 140. According to a member provincial council in Kirkuk for Kurdistan Democratic Party, Mohamed Kamal Saleh, "Article 140 unconstitutional nothing to do with the subject of provision of services. Citizen in need of services throughout the year." He's (Rn), speaking over the phone, "the Constitution must be applied regardless of the issue of services or other things that affect the lives of citizens. There are areas of dispute. can not keep these areas pending and in dispute between Baghdad and Erbil. " , said Mazen Abdul-Jabbar Abu Galal, the representative of the Iraqi List and the official National Accord Movement in Kirkuk (Rn) "We have moved The current Iraqi List and the movement and the national consensus is the importance of providing services and solve immediate problems in Kirkuk, with all the components. " explained "It is true there are outstanding issues and complex historical belonging to the province, but the parties or the Provincial Council or the political blocs, local moving mainly to the provision of services. citizen has the demands of key must be provided such as security and stability and the provision of services. " He said, "Kirkuk has a production capacity of large oil and the city of an ancient and important so you should focus the attention of both political parties and the governor and provincial council and departments in Kirkuk in order to provide security, services, and stability and the need for real-time citizen." The User Turkmen in Kirkuk Provincial Council Najat Hussein had confirmed earlier (Rn) that "the application of Article 140 of the interests of the Turkmen .. If applied this rule in accordance with the Constitution will be Ptsouri one hundred percent in favor of the Turkmen people in Kirkuk." The head of the Kurdistan region Masoud Barzani had warned earlier not to apply article said that the situation in Kirkuk may erupt at any moment. and despite the fact that Kirkuk, 250 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad is rich in oil but there is a big shortage in basic services, and deliver some of the blame on political tensions in the delayed completion of projects. management has allocated the province of Kirkuk, about 250 billion Iraqi dinars for 21 projects, mostly a strategic project of petrodollars. and the Municipality of Kirkuk, announced last week on the budget of the municipality within the petro-dollar project for the current year, amounting to 234 billion dinars. She said that the number of allocated projects within the petro-dollar in 2012 is 58 projects. The Department of Kirkuk, said earlier that about 110 service projects will be implemented in the city within the allowances of the Iraqi government without addressing the value of the total. and declared the province of Kirkuk earlier that the budget of Finance for the current year amounted to about 600 billion Iraqi dinars. She said that the increase or decrease the budget is important for her as much as the powers granted the federal government. From: Abdullah al-Amiri. Open: Murtaza Yousuf
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