Friday, July 20, 2007

 

Barzani to help resolve disputes over constitution

Government
(VOI) - The Iraqi parliament's constitutional amendments committee is waiting for the arrival of Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani in Baghdad to help resolve disputes over some points in the Iraqi constitution, head of the committee Hammam Hammoudi said on Thursday.
"The two points of dispute facing the constitutional amendments committee are related to the (Iraqi) president's powers and the implementation of article 140 pertaining to the situation in Kikruk," Hammoudi said. Article 140, the most controversial in the Iraqi constitution, is related to the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk, an important and mixed city of majority of Kurds, Christians, Arabs and Turkmen
Kurds seek to include the city in the autonomous Iraq's Kurdistan region, while Sunni Arabs, Turkmen and Shiite Arabs are inclined to postpone the incorporation. The article currently stipulates that all Arabs in Kirkuk be returned to their original locations in southern and central Iraqi areas, and formerly displaced residents returned to Kirkuk. Kirkuk lies just south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region with Iraq, 250 km northeast of Baghdad.

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