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Thursday 24 May 2012
Presidency of the Kurdistan region: Maliki stands against Article 140 and the privileges granted to "racists" of Kirkuk's Arabs against the Kurds
Editor: SA | MN Thursday 24 May 2012 20:11 GMT
Alsumaria News / Erbil
accused the Presidency of the Kurdistan region, on Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister being generally solve the problem of disputed areas and the application of Article 140 of the Constitution of the problem, and drew to his through the granting of privileges for people, "racists" of the Arabs Hawija Kirkuk to induce them to anti-Kurds. said presidency of the province in a statement obtained by "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, that Iraqi Prime Minister to "stop and everything he could against the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution, until it comes to urging some people racists known from the area of Hawija, Kirkuk and give them the privileges and promises to induce them to anti-Kurd, It was described by the terrorists we have say it is better to be Kirkuk to the Kurds, and not to those terrorists. " The statement added that "al-Maliki described the drafters of Article 140 of the Constitution of Iraq as" ignorant ", or deliberately put that article in the Constitution so as not to solve the problem of the disputed areas", Shira to that, "he says once that with the implementation of that article as described in again legislators Paljhlh, knowing that he was one of the members of the committee that drafted the article." and demanded Declaration by the Presidency of the Kurdistan region President of the Republic to respond to al-Maliki because he "Download the presidency responsible for not implementing full article constitutional, has ended the government to implement its part of. " Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in an interview with the station that "RTL" Kurdish earlier this month that his government has implemented the first part of Article 140 of the Constitution, and it remains the second phase They determine the administrative border between the provinces is not the prerogative of the government, but the powers of the presidency of Republican. The problem of the disputed areas, which are located in the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk, Diyala and Salahuddin in northern Iraq and other provinces in southern Iraq, of the most contentious issues between the authorities of Kurdistan and the Iraqi government, where approved Iraqi constitution in 2005 the existence of the problem and devoted to the treatment of Article 140 that define three stages of the solution, you start to normalize the situation in those areas and then compensate those affected by the policies of the former regime and the application of Article now, then the final stage is to hold a referendum for residents' views to choose the ownership of their areas to the Kurdistan region or remain within the management of the federal government in Baghdad, for the northern regions and choose to maintain that they want to link to the south of Iraq. but the application of article remains in its early stages and stop when conducting a census and a referendum to decide the fate of a number of these areas, and on the Kurds accuse the government of evading the census and referendum are the existence of the government technical and political problems hindering implementation.
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