Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Talabani's office confirms the commitment of President of the Republic Constitution, including articles on Kirkuk


Wednesday, March 8, 2011

Talabani's office confirms the commitment of President of the Republic Constitution, including articles on Kirkuk

The office of President Jalal Talabani, Wednesday, that the President was keen to abide by the principles of the Constitution, including on the question of Kirkuk, and to resolve all disputes within the framework of understanding and ensures the rights of everyone, adding that he will address those who try to evade its constitutional responsibility.

The statement received "Alsumaria News," a copy of it, that "some media published statements of politicians and members of the House of Representatives, and the comments dealt with the position of President of the Republic of the Kirkuk issue and would like to reiterate that President Jalal Talabani has repeatedly declared his commitment to the performance of his duty Ksain to the Constitution and committed to PROCEDURE fully, including Article 140, which include many areas, including Kirkuk. "

President Jalal Talabani called on Monday last, in a speech addressed by thousands of supporters in the city of Sulaimaniya, to the manufacture of coalition strategic Kurd, Turkmen in Kirkuk to edit who he described as "terrorists and occupiers of new," and urged Kurds not to forget the subject areas "withheld" from Kurdistan and annexation them, as described Kirkuk as "the Jerusalem of Kurdistan", which is no longer so far to the Territory.

The statement added that the president "always calls for the resolution of all issues in dispute in the framework of the Constitution and understanding between people of one nation, and to ensure that the interests and aspirations and rights of all parties, and will remain President Talabani, Al-Hafiz to the Constitution of the State of Iraq, federal, pluralistic democracy."

The statement pointed out that Talabani will also "major party who stands up for those trying to undermine the national fabric, and seeks to return Iraq to the first box and the abolition of the achievements of the concerted efforts of its people of all nationalities, religions and creeds", according to the statement.

The statement stressed the president's office that "the maintenance of the Constitution meant to hold all the items without selectivity or the interpretation of qualitative, and this is a sacred duty committed by both swear on the maintenance of the Basic Law of the State President of the Republic and members of the government and the House of Representatives," noting that "each appeal textured constitutional means Hntha department and an abdication of responsibility towards the electorate and the nation. "

The statement noted that "President Jalal Talabani stresses, since the beginning of taking office the presidential and even today, that his position is necessary and requires him to be a sponsor of the interests of all Iraqis without discrimination or favoritism and a protector of the Constitution with all its clauses and the interceptor to anyone who tries to harm it or repudiation of the constitutional responsibility and will not tends this approach."

The province of Kirkuk, 250 km north of the capital Baghdad, a mixed population of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, Christians and the Sabians, of the most disputed areas, while pushing Arabs and Turkmen, the direction of the claim management joint of the province, seeking Kurds to annex the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as that suffer from the fragility of the security situation in light of violent incidents taking place almost daily paid under the chairmanship of the Kurdistan region to send reinforcements to the Peshmerga to ensure protection of the Kurds, which increased tension after the Arabs and Turkmen considered that the step of Kurds constitute an encroachment on the sovereignty of the central government