03/10/2011
Kirkuk's Arabs refuse to revive the Article 140
BAGHDAD - Al Sabah
Said the political council in Kirkuk rejected the revival of Article 140 of the Constitution to the fact that the implementation phase finished, blaming the National Alliance and the Iraqi List, the responsibility of maintaining the identity of the province.
The news agency quoted «Alsumaria News», the leader of the political council of the Arab Hussein Ali Saleh Jubouri as saying that «the members of the Council and a number of representatives of the political spectrum in Kirkuk, agreed unanimously at a meeting they held, on Saturday, with the participation of the Iraqi List MP Omar Khalaf Jibouri, for refusing attempts to revive the Article 140 of the Constitution, which ended with the implementation phase.
He Jubouri that the meeting «demanded that the army of the Iraqi national role in maintaining security and stability in Kirkuk, through involvement in the management of the security file with the national police, and removal of equipment is the official.
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For his part, said the leadership in the Council, Sheikh Abdel Rahman singer Assi said that the list Iraqi National Alliance should take responsibility of national and historic preservation of the identity of Kirkuk, Iraq, and that is the key unit or tearing Iraq, saying that the crucial issues requiring clarity and the identity of Kirkuk is not subject to manipulation and courtesies.
Article 140 of the Constitution on the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk The disputed areas in other provinces, and set period of time ended in the atheist and the thirtieth of December 2007, to implement each of the Provisions of the said article of the action, also left for the people of those areas, freedom of self-determination of both survival and independent administrative unit or attached to the Kurdistan Region by organizing a referendum, but that the obstacles many have led to delay implementation of some essential items in the above-mentioned article, for reasons the politicians say the Kurds are politically motivated, while Baghdad says the delay is deliberate, knowing that he had of the Ministerial Committee responsible for the enforcement of article, that carried out some paragraphs, such as compensation for those affected, while not implemented the most important paragraphs a referendum on the fate of the city.
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