The Disputed Areas Of Iraq And Article 140 Of The Constitution !

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Kurdish leader: the region in the face of collapse

 

 

26th February, 2018
The leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Group, Shwan Rabar, said on Monday, February 26, 2018, that the Kurdistan region suffered a significant deterioration on the political, economic and social levels after the referendum last year, indicating that the region will be in a political collapse in the event of continuation of the current situation. 

"The province of Kurdistan suffered a significant deterioration on the political, economic and social levels after the referendum last year," he said, noting that "the region will be in the face of a political collapse in the event of continuation of the current situation."

He added that "the living conditions of the citizens of the region is very bad as the size of poverty and unemployment worsen day after day," pointing out that "these situations reflected on the unity of the row between the Kurdish political parties that could not form a unified electoral list." 

Raber said that "the people are now aware that the current situation in the region is unacceptable," adding that "the upcoming elections a great opportunity for citizens of the Kurdistan region to make a change in the political map of the region.

The Kurdistan region is suffering from an internal political and economic crisis following the holding of the independence referendum on 25 September last year, while the relationship between the federal government and the Kurdistan region of great tension, after the last referendum on the separation on the twenty-fifth of last September, prompting the head of the central government Haider Abadi to impose Including the stopping of international flights at Erbil and Sula

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United Nations: 3.5 million displaced Iraqis have returned to their cities
 

9th March, 2018

About 100,000 displaced people return from their camps in the country to their homes in the country, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday (March 9th, 2018).

"The number of displaced Iraqis currently exceeds 2.3 million, and the number of returnees to their areas reaches more than 3.5 million, exceeding 100,000 per month," a statement from the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) said.

"Responding to the needs of these affected groups is among the main priorities of the IOM as outlined in the UN's 2018 Appeal for Financing the Crisis in Iraq," the statement said.

"The appeal of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for $ 26.7 million highlights the urgent needs of more than 700,000 Iraqi returnees and members of host communities and displaced people throughout the country, especially those still in camps or informal sites, For displacement again ".

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“ THE SKY IS FALLING “ - Anyone over there take Problem  Solving 101 ? What do YOU DO  !

[danielchu]

No but i did stay in a holiday express .. they live in the desert for a month for ramadan.. so tent up!!

[DinarThug]

Shiite MP in Iraqi parliament wants to abolish Article 140

By Rudaw 9 hours ago

Kurdistan and Iraqi flags flying over Kirkuk last year. Photo: Rudaw

 

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Shiite MP from Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc argued that Article 140 of the constitution should be abolished. 

Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution dictates that the status of disputed territories, claimed by both Baghdad and Erbil, must be resolved via a census and referendum “to determine the will of their citizens” before the end of 2007. It has never been implemented.

"I am saying that there is no such thing as disputed territories. Such a phrase is used between two states. We have one state. There will be disagreement concerning borders, but there are no disputes. Dispute between who and who? If the region is a part of Iraq, it needs to have an understanding with the centre,” Kahalf Abdulsamad, member of the Shiite State of Law bloc, told Rudaw.

The MP believes the constitution contains many mistakes that ought to be rectified: “We require a majority government to amend many of the articles of the constitution that have resulted in instability in Iraq."
 
Former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, head of the Dawa party, the largest within the State of Law alliance, has also stressed the importance of forming a majority government, arguing it will be able to govern more effectively than the current coalition-based administration. 

A recent Iraqi federal court decision said that a committee should be formed to resolve the matter of the disputed territories, in line with Article 140.
 
“The Kurdistan Regional Government is recognized as the official government of those areas it administered prior March 19, 2003 that fall within the boundaries of the provinces Duhok, Erbil, Sulaimani, Kirkuk, Nineveh and Diyala,” reads an official statement by the court on March 11.
 
The province of Kirkuk and areas of Diyala and Nineveh remain disputed.
 
“Concluding this matter will be via a formed committee, based on Article 140 of the constitution,” the court stated. 
 
“This is an answer to those who say that Kirkuk and the 140 article are finished," Amin Bakir, head of Gorran's faction in the Iraqi parliament, told journalists on Thursday.

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[siberian_shaddow]

Much Appreciated Thugs, let's form a committee, to talk to the other committee to discuss the problems with the other committee.  

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The United Nations: Five Arab countries, including Iraq, make up 76% of the world's displaced

09:45 - 11/04/2018

 

 

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in Jordan, Talal Al Fayez, said Wednesday that 76 percent of the world's 65.6 million people are forcibly displaced from five Arab countries, including Iraq.

"About 76 percent of the world's 65.6 million forcibly displaced people come from five countries in the Arab region - Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - without counting Palestinian refugees," Fayez said in an interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper. "

He added that "crises have a direct impact on the region as a whole and not only on one country or another," stressing that there will be no food security or development if there is no effective work to stop conflicts and wars, and to achieve a just and sustainable peace. 

"One in nine people in the world is starving, with a total of 815 million hungry," said Rene Verdouin, chief technical adviser to FAO. "Armed conflicts in the Arab region have a negative impact on food security and hunger has doubled, .

 Verdwin noted that "70 to 80% of Syrians and Yemenis suffer from acute food shortages, at a time when the cost of the war in Syria $ 226 billion."[/b]

[ChuckFinley]

It is just amazing that people survive in this country.