Barzani: Kirkuk as a Kurdish city of constitutional article 140 will become a symbol of the fraternal coexistence

Barzani: Kirkuk as a Kurdish city of constitutional article 140 will become a symbol of the fraternal coexistence of

President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani in Salah al-Din with a number of retired U.S. commanders promote bilateral relations between the Territory and the United States.

Barzani and values the role of these officers to the success of the experience of the region and in the process of the liberation of Iraq from dictatorship and called them friends, pointing out that after the return of Kirkuk to the Kurdistan region would be an example of fraternal coexistence of the common, and there is no doubt that Kirkuk is part of Kurdistan.

For his part, General Abizaid, he expressed his happiness as well as the other officers about the significant progress of the development of urbanization and development, political stability and security in the Territory.

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Barzani: Iraq will not leave to others and should be the role of the Kurds, the composition of the army

19/07/2009 16:38 GMT:

Head of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani on Sunday said that Kurds will not leave Baghdad, others will not Isawmwa of Kirkuk, which has become a symbol of the contested areas between Baghdad and Arbil.

The French Press Agency Barzani's remarks during a meeting in Sulaimaniya, in the context of general elections to be held next Saturday, in which he explained: "I will not leave Baghdad to others In the event of any disagreement between the province and Baghdad should be the Federal Constitution is the government."

Barzani said that the main points of contention with Iraq is the "disputed areas, and the Peshmerga and the law of oil and gas, but most of all, this is the form of government, and individualism, as well as army building."

The Kurdish leader, "just as the oil and gas belongs to the people, as well as the army, must be taken into account when the balance so that the Kurdish role in the composition."

Barzani stressed that "the claim is legitimate and constitutional rights are not extreme and racist, but that extremism and racism is a repudiation of the agreements and the provisions of the Constitution," he said, to "the significant role of the Kurdish leadership in the rebuilding of Iraq and drafting a new constitution."

Barzani said that "the best formula for peaceful coexistence between Kurds and Arabs are optional because the era of coercion and the imposition of de facto gone forever."

On a multi-ethnic Kirkuk, Bazani said: "We are working hard to implement Article 140 of the Constitution, and promise our people that do not compromise or the rights of the people of Kurdistan, in any form."

The head of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani that he would not allow a Kurdish war of Arabic because of the differences between the parties.

More detail with the correspondent of "Radio Sawa" in Sulaimaniyah accompanied Fadel:


Article 140 of the Constitution, "the normalization of the situation and conduct a census and referendum in Kirkuk and other disputed territories to determine what he wants them," he said, before 31 December 2007, but the United Nations reached a daunting difficulty to persuade the parties concerned to defer to a later time.

Kurds want to annex the province of Kurdistan in Kirkuk, while Arab and ethnic Turkmen oppose this.

The city has a population of about one million people are a mix of Turkmen, Kurds and Arabs with Caldo Assyrian minority.