Article 140 new statement
Wednesday, April 7th 2010 5:11 PM
Nineveh, April 7 (AKnews) - "The payment of the compensations of Article 140 are frozen," the director of Sinjar office to implement Article 140 said.
"The Supreme Committee for the implementation of Article 140 has freezed the distribution of instruments in all offices including Sinjar office, until the bank that will exchange of instruments and identify the mechanism of exchange is specified," Saeid Jardo Matto told The Independent National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews).
"It's a temporary procedure, and when the new instruments will be distributed we'll inform all deportees who received or didn't receive."
The Iraqi parliament approved in its meeting on January 24 on 172 billion dinars to compensate the damages for those covered by article 140 of the constitution from the overall budget which is amounted by 78.733 trillion Iraqi dinars distributed in the form of investment expenditure of 20.862 trillion dinars, and 57.871 trillion dinars as operating expenses.
"Many citizens received their instruments but the bank that receives them is not identified yet."
He pointed out that "those who are covered by the compensation of Article 140 used to take their money from Kurdistan Bank in Dahuk and some of them used to take their money from Al-Rashid bank is Simel (15 km west of Dahuk), and probably all the compensations will be converted to Al-Rashid Bank in Sinjar. "
Article 140 of the constitution states on resolving the problem of areas of dispute between Baghdad and Erbil on three phases: normalization, and then conduct a census, followed by a referendum among the population about the fate of areas of disagreement.
Sinjar district is 124 km west of Mosul the capital city of Nineveh province (405 km northwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad). It is one of the disputed areas between the federal government in Baghdad and Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil.
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Wednesday, April 7th 2010 5:11 PM
Nineveh, April 7 (AKnews) - "The payment of the compensations of Article 140 are frozen," the director of Sinjar office to implement Article 140 said.
"The Supreme Committee for the implementation of Article 140 has freezed the distribution of instruments in all offices including Sinjar office, until the bank that will exchange of instruments and identify the mechanism of exchange is specified," Saeid Jardo Matto told The Independent National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews).
"It's a temporary procedure, and when the new instruments will be distributed we'll inform all deportees who received or didn't receive."
The Iraqi parliament approved in its meeting on January 24 on 172 billion dinars to compensate the damages for those covered by article 140 of the constitution from the overall budget which is amounted by 78.733 trillion Iraqi dinars distributed in the form of investment expenditure of 20.862 trillion dinars, and 57.871 trillion dinars as operating expenses.
"Many citizens received their instruments but the bank that receives them is not identified yet."
He pointed out that "those who are covered by the compensation of Article 140 used to take their money from Kurdistan Bank in Dahuk and some of them used to take their money from Al-Rashid bank is Simel (15 km west of Dahuk), and probably all the compensations will be converted to Al-Rashid Bank in Sinjar. "
Article 140 of the constitution states on resolving the problem of areas of dispute between Baghdad and Erbil on three phases: normalization, and then conduct a census, followed by a referendum among the population about the fate of areas of disagreement.
Sinjar district is 124 km west of Mosul the capital city of Nineveh province (405 km northwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad). It is one of the disputed areas between the federal government in Baghdad and Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil.
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