Thread: Article 140

Governor of Kirkuk: the best solution for Kirkuk is article 140 of Iraqi constitution

Governor of Kirkuk Abdul Rahman Mustafa on Wednesday April the 8 met with the ex-advisor of the US embassy in Iraq for the northern Iraq affairs Pitter Frumn who is visiting Kirkuk to closely see political conditions there as well as the works of the Iraqi parliamentary fact-finding committee.

The ex-advisor expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate with Kirkuk administration to deal with issues in the province.

Governor of Kirkuk welcomed the US ex-advisor, and stressed the need for commitment by all sides in power-sharing in the province and that the best solution for Kirkuk is article 140 of the Iraqi permanent constitution, saying “We as the administration of Kirkuk our duty is to provide public services and to carry out projects for the citizens of Kirkuk.”

Security conditions as well as other issues related to Kirkuk and the Iraqi economy were discussed during the meeting.

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Nermeen Othman: There are fears of a reduction in the budget of the Commission on Article 140

The Deputy Chairman of Supreme Committee for the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution, Nermin Othman said the Committee would begin its work soon after the Commission's budget be transferred to a bank account, for the purpose of compensation for deportees and start coming Alemczulin Article 140.

Othman said in an exclusive statement to Al PUKmedia Saturday 4-18 "There are fears of a reduction in the budget of the Commission that there is the possibility of the emergence of the crisis in the public budget end of the year."

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Ihsan: Many obstacles hinder implementation of Article 140
KRG minister of the extra-regional affairs Muhammad Ihsan said that there are many obstacles that hinder the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution and the key one is the lack of will by the political leadership to implement the aforementioned Article in addition to the foreign interference in Iraq policy.

That came during a lecture that Ihsan gave during the cultural semester of the college of Arts in Duhok University.

He also said that there are other obstacles that undermine the implementation of Article 140 like the absence of the constitutional awareness by the formal institutions and the common people.

“There is another problem which is, we, the Kurds know how and what to do regarding this Article but the absence of a responsible authority by the government of Baghdad in the areas which are included in the aforementioned Article is a real problem because the officials there are acting according to an old mentality”, Ihsan added.

He clarified that non-implementation of Article 140, means the continuity of the differences between Baghdad and Erbil.

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Talabani: Kurds adhere to Article 140

The Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leadership's adherence to Article 140 of the Constitution to resolve the issue of Kirkuk, while the president of the Kurdistan region said his announcement of the date of parliamentary elections in the province this week.

Talabani said at a joint press conference after his meeting with Barzani, "I can not tribunal that the Constitution and this tribunal can not rule 140," stressing that the Kurdish leadership committed to solving the problem of constitutional article 140 Kirkuk through.

And on the list of objections of Nineveh and its sister of the meetings of the Council to maintain the new, Talabani stressed the need to apply the principle of consensus in the distribution of positions, he said: "was the way the distribution of posts by denying the second in number and influence the wrong way with the Constitution and contrary to law because the ratification of the Convention on the Law of the withdrawal to include the text of paper political reform, which emphasized the principle of consensus."

With regard to Iraq's right to claim compensation from Israel to hit the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, Talabani said: "Iraq has damaged many a result of the wars, and I do not think that this situation be allowed to claim damages, as it is called in the event of Iraq's nuclear reactor was damaged, the Jews Fissetalib Jewish property in Iraq, estimated by the billions of dollars available, saying: The right to claim the country's many awards, but everything in time. For his part, said Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region: he announced the date for parliamentary elections in the province of Kurdistan, during a special session of the Parliament Kurdistan. and the response of the Government of the Kurdistan region on the Report of the Representative of the UN mission in Iraq, Steffan de Mistura on Kirkuk and disputed areas, Barzani said: "We formed a committee of legal experts and studying the region's response to the report.", it urged the Secretary-General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani During the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Union update on the general situation in Iraq and the Kurdistan region. The spokesman said the official spokesman of the Political Bureau of the Union of Mullah Bakhtiar told a news briefing, said he was stressed during the meeting the need for the meeting of the leadership of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the centers for holding a small meeting of the National Union as a first step in preparation for an General Conference. Bakhtiar said that future meetings are to prepare for a successful democratic elections, and to promote and strengthen the ranks of the party.

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Jamal Shan: Article (140) of the Constitution has lost the legal and constitutional cover to the expiration of the period specified in the end of the year 2007
Information Office of the National Democratic Party, the Iraqi Turkmen

Response "to the statement made by Mr. President Jalal Talabani, about the legality and constitutionality of Article (140) of the Constitution was made by Mr. Jamal, head of the Iraqi Turkmen National Party special permit for a space (Torkmen Eli) announced that the Article (140) of the Constitution has lost the legal cover with constitutional and legal end of the period specified, which ended with the end of the year 2007.

The following is the text of the statement.

Space correspondent Torkmen Eli: - What Takepkm to the statement made by President Jalal Talabani, in which he declared that Article (140) of the Constitution and constitutional rule of law can not violate the Constitution or the law and that it will not be ready "for the exchange of anything of Kirkuk will be no bargaining Kirkuk, according to him ..

Jamal Shan: - Article (140) mentioned in the Iraqi constitution, the current legal cover had been lost with the end of the year 2007 and the building "that any government official Flaihak Whatever the importance of his call for the implementation of this article because it is legal cover had been lost with the end of their constitutional Under the law, he should be an amendment, and this article is one of the fifty-four of the constitutionality of one of the contentious points in the constitution, and we wish the Commission to initiate constitutional amendments to make changes to this article or to delete the final "of the Constitution.

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President of the ruling Justice of Turkmenistan: the introduction of amendments to article 140 not acceptable

President of Turkmenistan, the ruling Justice Anwar Bayraqdar that amendments to Article 140 for the normalization of the situation in the disputed areas is unacceptable that the legal validity of Article exhausted.
He called in a press release published on Saturday, the Kurds "to resolve the entrenched positions rather than differences, and deepened the crisis and tension between the people" as he put it.

The Arabs and Turkmen of Kirkuk to be turned into an independent province or keep the current associated with the central government in Baghdad, the Kurds want to be joined with the Kurdistan province through the application of the provisions of Article 140 of the Constitution.

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Akaddually Kurdish leaders to desist from demanding the application of Article 140

Nostalgia Qadu called on the United Iraqi Alliance, the Kurdish leaders to the abolishment of the idea that Article 140 of the Constitution trump card for them. Qadu He told the independent press (Iba) on Sunday: "Article 140 constitute the largest differences between the Kurdish forces and the other Arab, as well as the article has created some problems between the regions.

He said: "The best solution to end disputes with the Kurds, the Kurds claim the p.alm of the application of article 140.

He continued: "The continued demand by Kurdish forces the application of Article 140 of the Constitution, left the political implications of the political and security situation, not only in Kirkuk but in other places.

Certain: the "that reflected negatively in Nineveh, which made the Arab forces in Mosul, calling for the withdrawal of the Peshmerga and the brave of the administrative border of the province.

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Arab Caucus Iraq's Talabani describes the application of Article 140 on "disappointing"

Description describes the assembly Arab Iraqi Talabani's remarks on the application of Article 140 "disappointing", and demanded that Arab Iraq in the House of Representatives to prevent he called "federal officials" of releasing statements urging the distinction between citizens on the basis of race.

The statement said the gathering that "the sooner the Iraqis tried to admit that their own federal representatives so that we can dissipate the impact of the conviction that's disappointing, issued by the official or the other."

"This is reflected in the position of President Talabani's remarks last Sunday at the party held in the province of Sulaymaniyah, which shocked the feelings of the Arab citizens and the sons of other components not only in Kirkuk but in all parts of the country."

The promise of such "anti-constitutional and what is not only to the aspirations of party as a symbol of the unity of the nation and ensures to maintain Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, as the text of the article / 67 / of the Constitution."

Explaining that "it was respect for the Constitution, which explicitly put an end to the implementation of article / 140 /, of those that do not eventually revert to the position of a political or an Iraqi."

"The implementation of article / 140 / Will return to the legislature when the constitutional text to complete this article on the atheist and a maximum of thirty-December 2007, as mentioned in the report from the Ambassador de Mistura, the last."

And that we rally, which includes a number of Arab parties in Kirkuk, bringing the Federal President to go on such contentious issues between citizens and distance himself from the partisan goals. "

He called for "the prevention of the actions that lead to the creation of ethnic or religious federations and to stop the work of the Committee of article / 140 / the absence of a constitutional cover for the continued implementation, with the need to re-check the transactions which were completed to ensure the availability of legal requirements," he said.

It also demanded that "the cessation of any action with respect to the census in Kirkuk, without addressing the change of population in the city, otherwise the Arabs would boycott any census in the province."

He stressed "the need to work to rule / 23 / in order to facilitate the mechanisms to deal with the demographic situation in Kirkuk, a necessary step to accept the idea of holding elections in the province, both at the local level or national level

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Narmin Othman: distributing compensation checks of article 140 to be resumed by next week

“We have been notified that the budget for implementing article 140 of the Iraqi permanent constitution has been included within the Iraqi fiscal budget for 2009,” Narmin Othman deputy chairwoman of the supreme committee for implementing auricle 140 exclusively told PUKmedia correspondent on Monday May 17.

She also said that initially %25 of the whole budget will be expended and then another %25 of the budget will be allocated by the Iraqi ministry of finance.

Concerning distributing compensation checks among the displaced people of Kirkuk and the Arab settlers, she said that it is expected by the next week the checks to be distributed.

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Abbas al-Bayati: Kurdish party to forget that Article (140) and will respect the will of Iraqis

21-05-2009
Baghdad/castle

Mr. Abbas al-Bayati, said the Secretary-General of the Turkmen Islamic Union of Iraq and Edumajls House building democratic experiment in Iraq and the restoration of relations with Arab, regional and international levels and submit a draft national reconciliation which is subject to the issue of Kirkuk.

Al-Bayati said in a press statement that the deal with the rigid mechanical Iraqi city over the constitutionality of rule through the force does not reflect the reality of social and political impact, which is a negative and unsatisfactory results.

Al-Bayati said that the comprehensive and just solution to the city of Kirkuk needs to be mutual trust between the components and the roof allows for all time a common consensus as to the complex and sensitive issues, which does not work with the unilateral solution.

He Edumajls House that the issue of Kirkuk is the first site in the agendas of political parties and blocs in the Iraqi arena and the Kurdish party, which rely on article 140 has to respect the will of others and realizes that this article has become futile and useless at the present time does not lead to a solution satisfactory to all parties.

Al-Bayati stressed the importance of sitting around a round table to ensure that a compromise solution of the product is protected by national and regionally and internationally to build a future without the excesses in the equitable sharing of power.

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