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01-30-2011, 05:39 PM
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29 Jan 2011
Neighbors' interference greatest impediment for enforcing article 140, says official (http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20110129080308/Neighbors%27%20interference%20greatest%20impedimen t%20for%20enforcing%20article%20140,%20says%20offi cial)
By Hevidar Ahmed
The deputy head of the committee for implementing article 140 described some Iraqi sides and the neighboring countries' interference "the greatest obstacle for article's enforcement". A Kurdish lawmaker said Kurds plan to resolve the issue through the Iraqi parliament.
The article is to settle the disputed tenure of the multiethnic areas between the Kurdish and Baghdad governments, including the oil rich Kirkuk province. The article had to be fully implemented by end of 2007; however, Iraqis are lagging behind even the article's first stage requirements. While some Iraqi sides stress the article is outdated, the Kurdish part insists on its enforcement.
Narmin Othman, the deputy head of the committee for article 140 told AKnews the committee had requested 700,000,000,000 Iraqi Dinars (IQD) to be allocated for reimbursing the displaced aboriginals returning to their disputed areas. However, only 2billion IQD has been proposed for this purpose. The Kurdish official believed this is an "intentional stride to delay the execution of the article."
The Iraqi general budget bill is currently in parliament for ratification.
Under the first stage of article 140, the people who were displaced during Arabization process (under Saddam Hussein's rule) should be resettled in their original areas and get reimbursed by the government. The following two steps are conducting a population census and a referendum to determine the destiny of the areas. Some families have not even returned and there are plenty in line for receiving the fund. The general population survey has been so far postponed several times, and it is not clear when it will be held.
The outsider powers and some Iraqi sides are the greatest support for delaying the article's implementation, Othman said, accusing Turkey to "exercise a special role in this respect." She urged the Kurdish lawmakers to push the Iraqi parliament to cut the influence.
As she expected the article will not come to the final stage by the government in less than two years, due to "political agendas and strong opposition from some Iraqi sides."
Ala Talabani, a Kurdish lawmaker to the Iraqi parliament said the Kurdish deputies will propose to parliament to increase the reimburse fund for the returning displaced people.
She added the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani has proposed a bill to settle the issue of the disputes areas and the Kurdish factions hope to resolve the issue through that bill. However, parliament has not received the bill yet. The Kurdish lawmaker did not allude to the content of the bill.
AK News 2011
29 Jan 2011
Neighbors' interference greatest impediment for enforcing article 140, says official (http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20110129080308/Neighbors%27%20interference%20greatest%20impedimen t%20for%20enforcing%20article%20140,%20says%20offi cial)
By Hevidar Ahmed
The deputy head of the committee for implementing article 140 described some Iraqi sides and the neighboring countries' interference "the greatest obstacle for article's enforcement". A Kurdish lawmaker said Kurds plan to resolve the issue through the Iraqi parliament.
The article is to settle the disputed tenure of the multiethnic areas between the Kurdish and Baghdad governments, including the oil rich Kirkuk province. The article had to be fully implemented by end of 2007; however, Iraqis are lagging behind even the article's first stage requirements. While some Iraqi sides stress the article is outdated, the Kurdish part insists on its enforcement.
Narmin Othman, the deputy head of the committee for article 140 told AKnews the committee had requested 700,000,000,000 Iraqi Dinars (IQD) to be allocated for reimbursing the displaced aboriginals returning to their disputed areas. However, only 2billion IQD has been proposed for this purpose. The Kurdish official believed this is an "intentional stride to delay the execution of the article."
The Iraqi general budget bill is currently in parliament for ratification.
Under the first stage of article 140, the people who were displaced during Arabization process (under Saddam Hussein's rule) should be resettled in their original areas and get reimbursed by the government. The following two steps are conducting a population census and a referendum to determine the destiny of the areas. Some families have not even returned and there are plenty in line for receiving the fund. The general population survey has been so far postponed several times, and it is not clear when it will be held.
The outsider powers and some Iraqi sides are the greatest support for delaying the article's implementation, Othman said, accusing Turkey to "exercise a special role in this respect." She urged the Kurdish lawmakers to push the Iraqi parliament to cut the influence.
As she expected the article will not come to the final stage by the government in less than two years, due to "political agendas and strong opposition from some Iraqi sides."
Ala Talabani, a Kurdish lawmaker to the Iraqi parliament said the Kurdish deputies will propose to parliament to increase the reimburse fund for the returning displaced people.
She added the Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani has proposed a bill to settle the issue of the disputes areas and the Kurdish factions hope to resolve the issue through that bill. However, parliament has not received the bill yet. The Kurdish lawmaker did not allude to the content of the bill.
AK News 2011