Thread: Article 140

Tariq Harb: Call Najafi, a Sunni province to form a clash Article 140 of the Constitution

Said the legal expert Tareq Harb told the site "Khandan" that invite the President of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi, to form the province for the year does not violate the provisions of the Iraqi Constitution, but it opens the door wide open to political disputes between various blocs.

He said the war that the call Nujaifi to form a province, a Sunni includes areas in the provinces disputed clash Article 140 of the permanent Iraqi constitution, which stipulates that the normalization of the situation in these areas before the referendum on the determination, and ask of war, saying: "How will the problematic calls for a federal province includes Mosul, the whole, which means the abolition of Article 140?".

And about the reasons that behind the cast Nujaifi his statement last and that has raised many questions, he said the war: "I think that the issue is political rather than realistic, and that his statement does not come out for the political pressure faced by the country."

He said the legal expert Tareq Harb that the formation of the regions defined by the people, not the House of Representatives and not the Prime Minister of the Republic nor the right of establishment of regions, but people first, and finally decides that there are regions of projects have been rejected by the people, as happened in Basra.

http://www.xendan.org/arabic/drejaA....ara=1377&Jor=2

Kurdistan Democratic Party: the constitutional article 140 does not end with a live statute of limitations

Aattabralamsúl media for the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in Mosul on Tuesday, said the article of Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution a living does not end with passage of time. came in a cultural symposium hosted by (Krupp Hamrin in the Nineveh Plain) in collaboration with the Center to "Walsh" cultural Yezidi Branch Bashiqa (17 km north-east of Mosul), under the title (article 140 .. impact and stages of implementation in the province of Nineveh, and the endless limitations).

During his lecture touched Mohammed Saeed delicious, official press office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, to the history of Mosul, and how accession to the Iraqi state, which was formed at the time, noting that "some families conductivity called accession to Turkey, while many Kurdish tribes of the Yazidis and Muslims hold fast to join the Iraq at the time."

Article 140 of the constitution to resolve the issue of disputed areas between Baghdad and Erbil and exposed to demographic change by the former Iraqi regime and highlighted areas of the provinces of Nineveh and Salahuddin in addition to the province of Kirkuk, and be in three stages: normalization, and then conduct a census, followed by a referendum among the population on the fate of those areas.

He believed that the "government of the Baath Party coup, which caught the reins of power in July 1968 In order to reduce the proportion of Kurds in Nineveh province, the development of the province of Dohuk," but he also said, "but they carved out a Kurdish areas and wide and kept in the province of Nineveh."

The delicious that the "agreement in March 1970 provided to conduct a census to identify areas that will be organized to the area of what was called self-government at the time, but procrastination Baghdad in the census, sparked the Kurdish revolution again later."

He believed that "delay in the application of Article 140 of the constitution is not in favor of any party, because he should respect the Iraqi constitution, and respect the desire and manage the population of the disputed areas and covered in this article to self-determination to belong to the destination they want," noting that "the application of this article does not mean cutting off part of the here and paste there, but it reflects the respect the will are covered by them".

Having reviewed the stages of application of this article, delicious wondered about the "reasons for concern by some parties of the census" .. He pointed out that "many facts be shown, and will appear normal size for each component and, expose the regime's policies the previous record-style forced many of the Kurdish tribes of the Yazidis and Muslims that they are Arabs."

In his address to the correspondent of the News Agency of Kurdistan (Rn), explained delicious that "Most of the disputed areas are located in areas inhabited by Kurds and adjacent to areas inhabited by Sunni Arabs,".. However, to say "But we are dealing with the Baghdad government and we stick to the Constitution in obtaining our rights and the implementation of Article 140 does not rely on individuals or groups or affiliations." and that "the formation of a new committee to monitor the implementation of Article 140 and the assumption Hadi al-Amiri Committee's responsibility instead of Raed Fahmi, a sign that Baghdad is serious in implementing this article, although the stages of the application is moving slowly, but the government is sticking to that Article 140 does not end with a live statute of limitations."

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/4/251479/

Distribution of compensation instruments of Article 140 in Khanaqin

Office of detection of Article 140 in Khanaqin, Tuesday, that he will soon begin distributing compensation to the families of instruments Kurdish affected, within the office.

Adnan al-Mansour's office official (twilight) that "the instrument of a total 2250 compensation to the families of Kurdish, the Bureau of Article 140 in Khanaqin, distributed in the next few days, within the perimeter of the office."

Mansour explained that "these instruments represent the numbers of sporadic covered compensation of the sequence 1 to sequence 12000 of those who did not receive compensation instruments so far."

Based on the information the bureau, nearly 10 thousands of an instrument of compensation has been distributed to households within the Kurdish Khanaqin and 500 last instrument has been distributed to households within the Kurdish town of Mandali.

The committee of Article 140 has decided to compensate the families of Kurdish phase within the limits of the disputed areas, in the amount of ten million Iraqi dinars, and give them a piece of land, while decided to compensate the families of Arab expatriates to disputed areas in the amount of twenty million dinars and a piece of land in the provinces that had come of them, the transfer of records to do their jobs and their souls and their ration cards to their areas of origin.

http://www.shafaaq.com/sh2/news/kurd...----140--.html

The assassination of an employee in the office of the Commission on Article 140 in Kirkuk





The director of police districts and areas in Kirkuk, a staff member in the Office of the Commission on Article 140 in the province of Kirkuk was assassinated by gunmen, as was found dead a civilian in separate incidents in the city.

He said Brigadier General Sarhad Qadir, a staff member working in the office of the Commission on Article 140 of the Constitutional fire killed unidentified gunmen near his home in the neighborhood of Rahimawa northeast of the city.

He also found a patrol of the police station on the Taza's body inside a water project Taza, near the village of Mary Beck's to spend Daquq south of Kirkuk.

He is able to an Iraqi army patrol found an explosive device was placed on the road near the village of Riyadh Hawija Rabzh southwest of Kirkuk, were then dismantled without injury.

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The formation of a committee of 34 deputies to oversee the implementation of Article 140

Confirmed the MP for the Kurdistan Alliance bloc Ohoaq dry that the parliamentary blocs agreed to form a committee to oversee the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitutional withheld areas, noting that the committee comprises 34 members including 6 representatives of the Kurdistan Region.

The dry Ohoaq told PUKmedia: that the committee includes Representatives: Muhsin al-Sadoun, Khaled Huani, Leila thanks, Mahmh Khalil, Hassan Jihad, Sardar Abdullah.

http://www.pukmedia.com/iraq/19022----34------140

Vice Kurd: Maliki should be forced to implement Article 140

student representative in the Kurdistan Alliance, Sunday, the Iraqi parliament to put pressure on the government to implement Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution.

The MP said Khalid Shwani journalists at a conference held in Baghdad that "the government program, as has the positive points, it involves many errors must be addressed."

He Shwani that "all parties are invited to exercise pressure on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to speed up the implementation of Article 140 of the constitution and addressing the problems of the disputed areas."

The member of the Kurdistan Alliance that "the Kurdistan Alliance calls for the implementation of Article 140 as soon as possible."

The House voted at a meeting held, yesterday, on the abolition of the twelve ministries of the State with the exception of the Ministries of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Women and Provincial Affairs and hosted by the impact of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss the government program and Limbering cabinet.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has presented to the Iraqi parliament and feminine paper to the current government, was approved by the heads of political blocs in the process of meeting them Limbering initially

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