Article 140 is close to resolving the transactions of deportees and arrivals in Kirkuk
Article 140 is close to resolving the transactions of deportees and arrivals in Kirkuk
2025-01-27 03:19
Shafaq News/ The Article 140 Committee in Kirkuk announced on Monday that there are approximately 2,500 deportees and 2,000 expatriates whose financial dues allocated by Baghdad are being disbursed by the committee, while it confirmed that the government is paying attention to resolving these files by allocating a budget estimated at about 100 billion annually to pay these special dues.
The director of the Article 140 Committee in Kirkuk, Hardi Khader, told Shafak News Agency, “The committee was able to complete 2,969 exchange transactions for expatriates and 1,699 exchange transactions for Kurdish deportees during the years 2023 and 2024. There are transactions ready for disbursement, about 5,728 for deportees and 3,931 transactions for expatriates, and these transactions are updated.”
Khader added, “The Supreme Committee for Article 140 in Baghdad is the one that allocates the budget and allocates the amounts for the bonds by it, where an amount of 100 billion is allocated annually to cover the disbursement of compensation to the displaced Kurds and Arabs arriving in Kirkuk.”
He added that “the committee is working to facilitate the work of the deported Kurdish and Arab visitors who meet the conditions, and the transaction is submitted to the general headquarters to disburse their financial dues through cheques organized for that purpose.”
Article 140 stipulates the cancellation of the demographic change policies pursued by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the disputed areas in favor of the Arabs at the expense of the Kurds, and then a census of the population before the final step, which is to hold a referendum in which the population determines whether they wish to join the Kurdistan Region or remain under the administration of Baghdad.
The implementation stages of the article were scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007, but security and political problems prevented this .
In 2019, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution would remain in effect, stressing that this would continue until its requirements were implemented and the purpose of its legislation was achieved.
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