Friday, January 7th 2011Article 140 document distribution extended
Wasit, The director of the office for the implementation of constitutional article 140 in Wasit stated on Friday that the committee specialized in the implementation of the article extended the distribution of questionnaires among the families covered by the provisions of this article till the end of next February instead of the previous date which was at the end of 2010.
Abdul Amir al-Yasiri told AKnews that the committee for the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution of the Republic extended the distribution of forms between the families covered in this article to February 28.
"The extension decision was the result of the growing numbers of families included within the decision and to allow a larger number of them to submit their requests to the office."
"The families covered in this article must expedite reviewing the office and take the form because after the end of the deadline for the end of the distribution, these families won't be able to recieve them, and thus they will be deprived from their constitutional right."
"The office of the implementation of Article 140 in Wasit is the main office of five provinces that are Baghdad, Diyala, Anbar, Salahaddin, and Wasit and the office has members in other provinces that organize the work requests covered by the article."
"The office in Wasit began at the first of July the distribution of about 20,000 forms among the families that migrated to other Iraqi provinces or out of Iraq since 1968 and until 2003 with the exception of the Arab countries that had good relations with the former regime."
According to Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, the problem of the disputed areas, most notably the oil-rich Kirkuk province, could be dealt on three stages, namely, normalization, and then conduct a census, followed by a referendum among the population about the fate of the city.
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