* Kirkuk’s Arabs warn of ethnic conflict when passing the recommendations of the Article 140 of the Council of Ministers
Kirkuk January 23 (Rn) – The Arab Group in the province of Kirkuk on Monday, rejected what it called attempts to pass the recommendations of the Commission of Article 140 of the Council of Ministers, stressing that pass these recommendations will trigger sectarian strife between the components of the province.
referred to the Implementation Committee Article 140 government discussed the end of last year, the recommendations of the representatives of the Ministry in the relevant committee and the Committee adopted the recommendations required in respect of payment of compensation to farmers covered by the contract cancellation under the Commission’s decisions, to solve the problem of a large segment of peasant immigrants and deportees in the province of Kirkuk. The program of the former Iraqi government commitment to implement Article 140 of the the Constitution, based on Article 58 of Administrative Law, specifying three stages: normalization, census and referendum in Kirkuk and other disputed areas, the end stage of normalization in 29 of the March / March 2007 followed by the statistics, which ends 31 of July 2007 and then phase Last a referendum in mid-November 2007, however, that any of these phases has not been completed until now because of political differences. A member of Kirkuk Provincial Council for the Arab Group Mohammed Khader West at a press conference this morning that “these recommendations if it is passed it will blow up ethnic conflict in Kirkuk and other areas covered by Article 140. ” The West “go to the Iraqi List, which most of the deputies of the provinces covered by the issue of Article 140 to the need to take a serious attitude toward this project danger which targets the unity of Iraq’s land and people.” He continued, saying “We demand Iraq to take measures to prevent the passage of these recommendations because they will lead to change the demography of those regions. ” He explained, “we appeal to a coalition of state law and the mass of virtue and the Liberal bloc to intervene to prevent these recommendations because they are the most serious of the problems surrounding the political process now.” noteworthy that the task of the Article 140 lift injustices suffered by the children of the Iraqi people as a result of the policies and practices of the former regime, represented by deporting and expelling individuals from their places of residence, displacement and forced migration, and settling individuals alien to the region, depriving the inhabitants of work, and the confiscation of property, land and acquisition and amortize rights Altsrfah. and through demographic change and change national and demographic change for the areas covered by the provisions of Article (58) of the Code of the State Administration for the Transitional Period and Article (140) of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq, including Kirkuk and bring the situation to what it was before July 17, 1968, and that the time period that work by the Commission are for the period from 17 July 1968 until April 9, 2003.

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