Thread: Article 140

Pera: some issues with Baghdad not resolved yet

During an interview with Niqash Agency, Member of the PUK Politburo Saadi Pera said that there are some outstanding issues with Baghdad Government which are not resolved yet but there are talks in order to solve them.

Pera also said: “It’s wrong to believe that we could protect our gains by writing and journalism - there should be a military force like the Peshmerga to protect the Region’s borders and the achievements of Kurdistan people. We must be prepared for all possibilities among the military one. Regarding oil, we made discussions with the officials in Baghdad about oil and gas problems and other fortunes, in his recent visit to Kurdistan region, Mr. Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister met with Mr. Jalal Talabani and Mr. Masoud Barzani who delivered him a proposal by both of them. A follow up committee was formed and will visit Baghdad soon.”

Regarding Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution on the disputed areas between Baghdad and Kurdistan governments, Pera said that a special committee including all Iraqi constituents was formed under US and UN supervision, but we always emphasize that Kirkuk is a city which locates within Kurdistan Region borders. It’s a multi-ethnic and religions city.

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Othman: Government approved Article 140 Budget

In a statement to PUKmedia Correspondent, Deputy Chairman of Article 140 Implementation Committee Narmin Othman said that the Iraqi government approved a proposal to allocate a budget for the committee in order to carry out its works in 2010.

She also said that the Committee will continue to pay the financial compensations to those who are included with Article 140 in the Iraqi Permanent Constitution.

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Kirkuki: Article 140 roadmap to solve disputed areas issue

Speaker of Kurdistan Region Parliament Dr. Kamal Kirkuki on Monday, October 05, 2009, met with Palestinian delegation led by Khalid Esali head of al-Khalil Municipality and included member of the municipality council Ishak Neshta and a number of businessmen.

At the beginning of the meeting, Kirkuki welcomed the visiting delegation and pointed out to the historical ties between both the Kurdish and the Palestinian peoples.

For his part Esali thanked Speaker of Kurdistan Region Parliament for his hospitality and conveyed the greetings of President Mahmoud Abbas to Dr. Kirkuki. He pointed out to the aim behind the delegation visit which is to establish economic, commercial, cultural ties with Kurdistan Region expressing the willingness of the Palestinian capital owners to invest in Kurdistan region.

Dr. Kirkuki, pointed out to the outstanding issues between Kurdistan Regional Government and the Federal Government emphasizing the necessity to solve the issue of the disputed areas through the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution.

“Although dozens of evidences and historical and geographical documents prove the Kurdish identity of these areas, yet all parties should uphold the implementation of Article 140 which represents a roadmap to solve the disputed areas issue”, Kirkuki said.

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Article 140 of the Commission proceed regardless of the instruments deported from Kirkuk and arrivals

Committee decided to Article 140 of the Constitution in Kirkuk, the launch of exchange instruments for evacuees returning to the stage 15 and stage 11 for the newcomers.

An official committee of the Technical Committee, Mohamed Khalil Jubouri The Commission on article 140 Kirkuk office decided to launch the distribution of the instruments covered by the decisions of the Commission deportees stage 15 meals from the seventh and even the 11, which include the 446 deportees back to Kirkuk.

He pointed out that Jubouri instruments arrivals will be distributed from Monday on the remainder of the phase 11 of the meals sixth and seventh eighth and ninth and tenth.

He added that the bombing Wednesday that caused bloody Ptdharr the Ministry of Finance has delayed the arrival of the budget for the commission, noting that the ministry has strengthened the balance in the bank covers the distribution of sufficient amounts of these instruments, without specifying the amounts allocated.

The Commission had approached the bank Mesopotamia and Iraqi trade on the need to accelerate regardless of the instruments covered by the amounts and delivery of them as soon as possible.

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Kirkuk office of Article 140 Implementation Committee receives 7000 compensation checks

On Monday, October 19, Head of Kirkuk office of Higher Committee of Implementation of Article 140, Kaka Rash Sedique, in a press statement at the headquarter of Kirkuk Governorate said that his office received 7000 compensation checks for the displacements and immigrants for the stages 15-20.

“In the coming days we will begin the distribution of checks, by 600-700 per day”, Sedique said clarifying that the ministry of finance released only 70 billion dinars to compensate the displacements and immigrants in Kirkuk.

He also said that there are some people in the Iraqi ministry of finance who try to hinder the release of amounts Allocated to Article 140 Implementation Committee.

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Member of the Committee of Experts on the Constitution: Article 140, finished as a constitutional error

A member of the Committee of Experts on the Constitution Nuri al-Latif, the House ignored the Article (140) in the Constitution, which includes the requirements and conditions of the issue of Kirkuk.

A nice added in a statement to the reporter that "Article (140) not implemented in time so the Board considered closed and the constitutional error is academically and can not be void of any substance found in the Constitution, but the amendment Awalhzv this article is therefore legally the list is not finished."

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Commission on the implementation of Article 140 introduces offices in four provinces

The Commission on the implementation of Article 140 of the constitution of the Council of Ministers decided to establish an office of the Commission in four provinces. The Chairman of the pilot struggled Fahmi, Minister of Science and Technology said in a statement singled out the "morning"

The Commission has taken a decision to open offices in the governorates of Babil, Karbala, Anbar and Diyala. He added that appropriate controls have been developed for the work of those offices in the provinces in terms of receiving orders and information of the deportees and immigrants in these provinces, noting that each one of those offices could fill the need for more than province. and he said, calling the allocation of some 13 billion dinars to cover the compensation contract farming, noting that a small part of these contracts were to guess amounts of compensatory time off. The Committee discussed the issue earlier in the agricultural contracts, as have requests for more than 5500 agricultural holding a contract of 3200 coverage article, and then presented to the owners of these contracts within the mechanism that requests by the Committee and for the study of these contracts and canceled, as has been studied more than 1600 contract, noting that all decisions taken at the evidentiary items and documents according to specific and clear title to this contract, denying accusations that have been by the Committee that work was aimed at the contracts owned by Arabs in the disputed areas with a view to deportation from those cities.

The Committee had come a long way to compensate for the deportees and immigrants in the disputed areas after the government provided about $ 200 million to cover these costs, pointing out that compensation, including approximately 55 thousand citizens in Kirkuk, noting that the Commission would apply to the government to increase allocations next year because to cover central and southern areas of compensation. The was formed a specialized committee emanating from the Supreme Committee for Article 140 and is composed of both the Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior and Secretary of State for Provincial Affairs and representatives of the property disputes, as well as the representative of the 140 to visit the ten provinces and the central and southern conservatives and the meeting and the dignitaries of the city and visit the areas that were prone to the policies of the former regime forced Kalthger and acts of aggression and agree to summon the governors of all data and information required for these areas for consideration by the committee and then make recommendations on these areas.

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Ali Mahdi: We initiated and Arab brothers to withdraw from the meeting in protest at the Baghdad conference involving the subject of Article 140

Said Mr. Ali Mahdi Sadek, Vice President of Eli Torkmen Party and a member of the Turkmen bloc in the province of Kirkuk in a telephone interview with Eli Torkmen space during the main evening news reporting published on Friday, a brief summary of the عشرون of November that members of the Turkmen and Arab blocs in the Kirkuk province of participants within Council's delegation at the Conference Held in Baghdad within the framework of (Helsinki Convention) Take to withdraw from the conference hall in the evening, which was held on the same day to protest the province involving the speaker of the parliament in northern Iraq the subject of Article (140) of the Constitution in his speech during the conference, which is contrary to what has been agreed between the representatives of the lists participating in the province of Kirkuk and who agreed unanimously to discuss three points during the conference, which was as follows: --

1 - the subject of ownership disputes, and the draft report of the UNAMI on the subject.
2 - reconstruction and development.
3 - Law Council elections Kirkuk.

It has been agreed between representatives of the Turkmen, Arabs and Kurds in the Kirkuk province to discuss these points only during the conference in Baghdad during a special meeting they held in the Office of the Vice President of the Provincial Council on 12 \ 11 \ 2009 in the presence of Professor (O'Malley) coordinated between the concerned parties to the Convention and one of the characters organizers of the conference was also attended by the Chair of the Council of Kirkuk province and members of the coordinating body in the province.

Has been Nscherbr this meeting and the agreement between the parties participating in the conference of representatives of the lists participating in the provincial council in the website of the Council of the governorate of Kirkuk.

Mr Ali Mahdi in his meeting with Eli Torkmen space that Mr. Iraqi Parliament Speaker Dr. Iyad al-Samarrai delivered a speech at the beginning of the value of meeting of the Conference and had representatives of the Turkmen and Arab trainers in the provincial council to leave the conference hall after involving the subject matter of Article (140) in the Conference agenda by the President of the Parliament of the territory of northern Iraq, in violation of what has been agreed between representatives of the lists participating in the province of Kirkuk and the presence of Professor (O'Malley), one of the members of the Organization of the Conference and explained that they had been after they leave the conference hall, they are still so far in a private meeting with Iraqi Parliament Speaker will be During the next few hours to issue a statement on their part shows the position of this subject.

It should be noted that the Baghdad conference, which is held within the framework of the Helsinki Convention continue for the period (19-20-21) of the month of November."

And the Helsinki Convention is the Convention on the political process and especially the current regime in Iraq has been agreed between the organizers of the Conference and the Chairman of the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Iyad al-Samarrai to introduce the idea of discussing the problem of Kirkuk and its political future within the umbrella of the Helsinki Convention in view of the importance of the conference, which will be attended by prominent political figures within the political process a signatory to the Convention.

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Abd al-Mahjoub: Hashemi lost human Nineveh

Through the Vice-President of the Legal Committee of the Council of Nineveh province, of Nineveh province to restore joy to their seats in parliament, adding that the speed of the veto rights of Nineveh and missed easy for the Kurdistan Alliance get three additional seats and the promises of the implementation of Article 140 of the White House.

"Yahya Abd al-Mahjoub told (Voices of Iraq) that the recent amendment, which won the election law has proved the wisdom of Parliament, Iyad al-Samarrai in the national realignment, and not to rush to the veto rights Vodhaa Nineveh province, and is easy on the Kurdistan Alliance obtained three seats in addition to the promises of the implementation of Article 140 by the White House and international bodies.

The restricted "Thank God, our brothers in Parliament could respond to the draft seats reduce the Nineveh province, and won again, after we have obtained in the previous decision of the Federal Court fairly Nineveh province and other provinces after the injustice that occurred in 2005, but that the resolution we After the complaint made by the Islamic Party and the Accordance Front's decision almost the first veto to remove him.

However, but regrettably resulted in the veto for the Kurdistan Alliance to three additional seats from unfairly, and we are keen to make sure the country does not go into the unknown, and no longer closed list again and not to postpone the elections and consequently this was the best solution at this stage."

He restricted the law was first made more equitable and Iraqi province of Nineveh, and was more a force to gather together and support the Iraqi national unity, but that veto, which he returned to Iraq splitting and sectarian polarization, and this is what happened in the first test for those who raise the slogan of the national project and get Iraq out of quotas.

This has increased our expectations, and we say now to some politicians who are taking up positions are not carefully studied for the interests of electoral propaganda, my brothers, is not campaigning is all that exists in politics, "adding that" politics is the art of the possible and should consider the capabilities of your opponents and you know your abilities Even from which, and the propaganda and election slogans, it leads the country into the unknown."

He said what has been restricted to study the draft and the draft of Iraq's unity and solidarity rally on the faithful, saying today that it proved the Accordance Front, a safety valve and Her solutions to save Iraq from dilemmas.

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US reaffirms commitment to implementation of Article 140

At a meeting with the US troops in Kirkuk on 13 December 2009, Rizgar Ali Head of Kirkuk Provincial Council praised role of the USA in improving the condition of Kirkuk, especially its commitment to implementation of the content of the Iraqi Constitution including Article 140.

They exchanged views on boosting ties between the Kirkuk Provincial Council with the US troops and US Consulate General in Kirkuk in favour of improving the security, political and economic situation in the city.

The US delegation reaffirmed its commitment to solve all the issues in Kirkuk as well as reinforcement the position of Provincial Council and the administration in the city.

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