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[EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS] Turkmen Deputy: Kurdistan parliament constitution is a negative ...: Despite considering the disputed territories part of Kurdish soil, the draft constitution does not call for any forcible takeover of those areas and defers the matter to be settled through an article in Iraq’s constitution. Article 140 of the national constitution addresses long-standing territorial problems between Iraq’s Kurds and Arabs and lays down a road map to resolve the issue.

[Turkish Forum] Discrepancies in the Kurdish constitution disregard feelings of ...: The constitution of Kurdish region is described by Sunni and Shiite Arab parliamentarians as running counter to Iraq's .

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] The Elections Law: Who Will Stand Up for Kirkuk? « Iraq and Gulf ...: This should be particularly interesting in terms of the ongoing coalition negotiations, because just like the Sadrists, the secular Iraqiyya list - lately reported as being involved in negotiations with ISCI - would normally take an anti-Kurdish position (as they reportedly did on 22 July 2008 as well.) Similarly, the Kurdish issue is one where the Daawa party in the past has held a position which dovetails with many of the Iraqi nationalist parties in the northern parts of the country. It would also be interesting to know the exact stance of the Sunni-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party, whose prominent representative Ayyad al-Samarraie is visiting Iran these days, technically in his capacity as speaker of the Iraqi parliament, but reportedly scheduled to hold talks at pretty high levels (including President Ahmadinejad and the national security chief Said Jalili in addition to Ali Larijani, his Iranian counterpart and apparently an increasingly important figure in Iranian policy-making on Iraq).

[Robert M. Cutler on Energy and Eurasia] The Kurds and the Constitutional Crisis in Iraq (Robert M. Cutler ...: The political relations among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis are governed by this document, even if it is has not been fully implemented. What is necessary is that each of the three components of the population of Iraq should not to propagate the image that any of the other components is an enemy.

[Alsumaria TV Iraq, Iraq news | Iraq News | RSS feed] Protests against Kurdistan Constitution | Iraq News | Alsumaria ...: Residents of Al Qobba village in northern Mosul protested against articles of Kurdistan’s Constitution which protestors say call for partition and division.

[World War 4 Report blogs] Iraq: Kirkuk oil struggle behind Kurdish constitutional ...: In an extraordinary session at Irbil, the parliament of Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) voted July 9 to postpone a referendum scheduled later this month on the autonomous region's controversial constitution. The referendum was to be held on July 25 simultaneously with the region's parliamentary elections.

[News From Antiwar.com] Is Ethnic Strife Inevitable in Iraq? -- News from Antiwar.com: Describing the Kurdish draft constitution as " in defiance of some of the articles" in the national constitution of Iraq, Mohammed Mehdi al-Bayati, a Turkmen deputy in the Iraqi parliament, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that .Is Ethnic Strife Inevitable in Iraq?

[Penn Press Log] Penn Press Log: Kurdistan's New Constitution and United Iraq's Future: Today's New York Times carried a front-page story on a new threat to a unified Iraq. The Kurdish government in Iraq has written a new constitution that grants the Kurds substantial powers, including control of contested territories and oil ... decentralized Iraq can work, politically and economically, after the US withdrawal. As he writes, Iraq's future””a work in progress--is “neither hopeless nor forlorn.” Posted by PennPress on July 10, 2009 at 03:17 PM | Permalink ...

[Global Justice Project: Iraq] Global Justice Project: Iraq » Blog Archive » Draft Kurdish ...: Al-Sabaah also reported that having approved last month the Provincial Council electoral law for the three Governorates of Dohuk, Erbil and Suleiymaniye in the Kurdistan region, the Kurdistan Parliament has now, as an amendment to that electoral law, approved a quota system for minorities for those elections as follows:

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Kurd-Arab Tensions Raise ...: He made clear that he -- and, presumably, the United States -- saw Iraq's challenges and solutions largely in terms of sectarian or ethnic groups. Discussing Iraq's problems in such terms pushes Iraqis back toward the boxes they have been trying to leave behind -- and undermines incipient movement away from the dominance of sectarian political identities toward issues-based politics."

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Why an Allawi-Hakim Alliance Would Mean Retrogression in Iraq ...: What they forget is that those forces that were on the defensive in the last local elections have now devised their counter-strategy in the shape of the Iraqi National Alliance. It seems likely that another aspect of this counter-strategy is to make things as difficult as possible for Maliki in his ongoing negotiations with Iraqi nationalists - it is for example remarkable how media close to ISCI (which have been pushing the anti-Baathist and anti-Syria message for a long time) suddenly stand back a little while allowing Maliki to get trapped by going so strongly after Damascus.  Nevertheless, with his greater degree of ideological consistency Maliki should still be taken seriously by forces eager to consolidate the signs of improved political atmosphere in Iraq seen over the past year or so.

Mudville Gazette: We Americans prefer independence as a cause for celebration, but the Constitution (or the ideals it defines) is the document many of us took oaths to support and defend.

[Τζεμιλ Τουραν Μπαζιντι] Τζεμιλ Τουραν Μπαζιντι » Blog Archive » KRG Head of Foreign ...: Well, the Kurdistan Region is a part Iraq, and the parliament of the Kurdistan Region adopted a federal solution. We are committed to the Iraqi constitution and we want to make sure that we will have a free, federal, democratic and pluralistic Iraq, an Iraq that treats its citizens with respect and dignity, and lives in peace with itself, within its communities and with its neighboring countries.

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