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[PUK Media Central Office "PUKmedia"] PUKmedia :: English - Yawir demand Kurds proportion increase in ...: “The percentage of the Kurds in the Iraqi ministry of defence is nearly 8.2% while the proportion of the Kurds in Iraq is  22%-25% and that Article 9 of the Iraqi Constitution provides that each constitution should have a percentage according to its proportion in Iraq and we always demanded to increase it”, Yawir added.

[TPMmuckraker] TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Turkey and Kurdistan: Behind ...: Galbraith spent the last week in Iraqi Kurdistan, meeting with top Kurdish officials -- including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani -- and found them "not blase about it, but there was not enormous anxiety either." Reached in Copenhagen right after he left Kurdistan, Galbraith told Muckraker that the Kurds thought it was "highly possible that the Turks might do something in the highly mountainous areas" that house "supposed PKK camps" but that there was "no expectation an invasion was imminent."

[Firedoglake] Israel Gearing Up For Iran?: Major General Jabbar Yawir, the Peshmerga Affairs Ministry's undersecretary and official spokesman of the region's protection forces, told Asharq Al-Awsat that "the federal authorities in Iraq are in charge of protecting the safety of all of Iraq's air space, including that of the region, under the Iraqi constitution. Moreover, Iraq has a strategic security agreement with the United States under which it undertakes to protect Iraqi airspace."

Informed Comment: A UIA member of parliament who requested confidentiality told Fayyad of Jaafari, "He said to me, 'God and the people have chosen me for this position.' " He added, "We know Jaafari, and when he insists on a position, he will not be moved from it easily. If right now, 50 Iraqis came out to demand that he maintain his candidacy, he would say, 'Look, all the Iraqis want me.' And if millions came out demanding his resignation, he would say, 'America instigated them against me.' "

[Main and Central] Kirkuk Is Heating Up...: "Kurdish leaders are among the most prominent US allies in Iraq and the region, and with this permanent US presence not one neighbouring country would dare to threaten the sovereignty of the region and its federal experience, and the Kurdish population will not to take up arms against the presence if this happens, because much of them are have a message of thanks and gratitude for the Americans," Abdul Razzaq Al Saadi, a strategic analyst told Gulf News.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Iraq Dinar Discussion JULY 2008: . By another company director said Iraqi ports, Mahmoud Saleh, said that there are important strategic projects to enhance the relationship with the Arab Gulf states, adding that the importance of the large port project, which is one of the most important infrastructure projects strategy, and would give Iraq a new appearance in the waters of the Arabian Gulf and from the port to the World On the high seas, and contribute when done in getting the Iraqi port of stifling bottleneck of navigational channels, the current link between the Arab Gulf and the port of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair and get rid of knots ALGHATES shallower water, which hampers the entry of large ships with more height on the eleven-meter draught which is better Currently available as well as the completion of the problems the following line and treaties on him and take advantage of the end of the Iraqi land in the Faw area where the project will be set up to provide freedom of international navigation and direct correlation high seas. .. He explained that the project, which extends to a distance of more than 22 kilometers in Ras al-Bishah Faw area of land in another Iraqi territory to be referred to a specialized international companies to execute overlooking the depths exceeding 28 meters deep which provides a comfortable height for the largest ships and oil tankers and giant consists of 50 quays To receive commercial ships and supertankers and the right of the regions of the unloading and shipping, warehouses, administrative facilities and housing complexes and associated railway lines and roads network quick and selected areas of free trade and the establishment of an international airport in a subsequent period, pointing out that the completion of this edifice of economic work does not eliminate the existing ports, but would work to alleviate the momentum Happening at the present time and will serve as a secondary ports as the more ports added strength to the economic development of the country .

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