Decision of the Parliament: Article 140 expired .. Iraq is free of disputed areas except from this region
Decision of the Parliament: Article 140 expired .. Iraq is free of disputed areas except from this region
2017/10/24 12:31
Baghdad today – Kirkuk
The decision of the House of Representatives Niasi Myanmar Uglu, on Tuesday, that Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution expired in 2007, between that Iraq is free of the disputed areas only one area, the center of Kirkuk province exclusively.
“The governor of Kirkuk, Necmettin Karim, is a corrupt and dictatorial person, linked to foreign agendas, and has ignited sedition, which is legally responsible and bears all that happened in Kirkuk. He has embraced the elements of the terrorist pkk ,” Oglu said in an interview with Baghdad today. Supervise their deployment in the streets. ”
He pointed out that “some Kurdish parties, headed by Barzani Party, are the ones who came to the terrorist pkk to Iraq, as well as the Iranian opposition Bijat. These are all constitutional violations. The constitution affirmed that no terrorist organization should be allowed to enter Iraqi territory.”
He added that “the Kurdish side speaks and controls Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution, and this article expired on 31/12/2007, according to the report of the United Nations Representative in 2009, where he stressed the absence of any disputed area in Iraq, , Not fully maintained, only center. ”
He stressed that “will be reviewed the post of governor of Kirkuk and the President of the Council of Kirkuk and all positions in the province, which was managed by one national, but one party and one person.”
The Kurdistan Regional Administration has called, after the imposition of federal forces control of the Kurdistan region, the middle of last week, to resolve disputes over the disputed areas in accordance with Article 140 of the Constitution, which includes the management of disputed areas in partnership between Baghdad and Erbil.
The Constitution of 2005, Article 140 as a solution to the problem of Kirkuk and the so-called disputed areas between the Kurdistan region and the neighboring provinces (Nineveh, Diyala and Salahuddin).
The Committee for the Implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq defines the disputed areas of Iraq as being subjected to demographic change and Arabization policy by the regime of Saddam Hussein until it was dropped during the US invasion in April 2003.
The article includes a mechanism consisting of three stages: first, normalization, and the treatment of changes in the composition of the population in Kirkuk and disputed areas under the regime of Saddam and after, and the second census in those areas, the latest referendum to determine what the people want, before December 31 First.
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