The Peshmerga returns to four disputed areas, including Kirkuk (document)

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2020/08/22 09:31

The Peshmerga returns to four disputed areas, including Kirkuk (document)

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Baghdad / Al-Masalla: The Joint Operations Command agreed, on Saturday, August 22, 2020, to open four centers for security coordination with the Peshmerga forces in the disputed areas, including one in the Jimma sector of Kirkuk governorate.

According to a letter from the Deputy Commander of Operations, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Al-Shammari to the Ministry of Defense, the approval of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to open four joint coordination centers with the Kurdistan region in the commands below:

A - Diyala Operations Command in Khanaqin District.
B - Nineveh Operations Command in Makhmour.
C - Western Nineveh Operations Command at the Kasak headquarters.
D - The Joint Operations Command advanced headquarters / Kirkuk in the Jimma area.
The decision indicated that an officer with the rank of brigadier-colonel would be nominated to run the center until two commanders were appointed to it.
He pointed out that the above decision was opened on 08/20/2020.

On Sunday August 9, 2020, the Arab Front in Kirkuk Governorate warned against any attempt to return non-federal security forces to the governorate's areas.

The deputy head of the front, Nazim al-Shammari, said, in an interview received by Al-Masalla, that security cooperation between the federal forces and the various security forces of the Kurdistan region is necessary and very important, because it will be a prelude to a step that precedes the return of the Peshmerga to the Kirkuk governorate and the disputed areas, as our sources informed us about that.

 He added that the return of the Peshmerga or any non-federal force to Kirkuk harms societal peace in the governorate, calling on the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, until it listens to the wishes of the components of Kirkuk to demand that the governorate be removed from any political conflict and that it be under the authority of the federal government.

 

 

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2020/08/22 13:38

The Arab Front rejects the joint coordination room inside Kirkuk: it will pave the way for the return of the Peshmerga to the region

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Baghdad / Al-Masala: Deputy Head of the Arab Front in Kirkuk, Nazem Al-Shammari, confirmed, Saturday, August 22, 2020, that the joint coordination rooms between the Peshmerga and the Iraqi forces are rejected because they will pave the way for the return of the Peshmerga to Kirkuk and the disputed areas.

Al-Shammari said in an interview with Al-Masalla: We are surprised by the silence of the representatives of the Arab component in Kirkuk and the other provinces of Nineveh and Diyala, as well as the political forces in these regions, as they did not have clear positions towards the rejection of any return of the Peshmerga to Kirkuk.

He added that the operations and coordination rooms should be in Baghdad or Erbil or outside Kirkuk, such as on the borders between Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah or with the borders of Erbil Governorate, and they should not be inside because it is clear that it is paving the way for a speedy return of the Peshmerga.

He pointed out that the plan to impose law on the rest of the provinces of Kirkuk and Nineveh should be completed, because some areas are still under the control of the region, as well as the roads linking Mosul and Kirkuk must be opened and the federal forces control those areas.

On Saturday, August 22, 2020, the Joint Operations Command agreed to open four security coordination centers with the Peshmerga forces in the disputed areas, including one in the Jimma sector of Kirkuk governorate.

According to a letter from the Deputy Commander of Operations, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Al-Shammari to the Ministry of Defense, the approval of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to open four joint coordination centers with the Kurdistan region in the commands below:

A - Diyala Operations Command in Khanaqin District.
B - Nineveh Operations Command in Makhmour.
C - Western Nineveh Operations Command at the Kasak headquarters.
D - The Joint Operations Command advanced headquarters / Kirkuk in the Jimma area.
The decision indicated that an officer with the rank of brigadier-colonel would be nominated to run the center until two commanders were appointed to it.
He pointed out that the above decision was opened on 08/20/2020.

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2020/08/22 19:07

 

The Peshmerga denies reports of opening coordination centers with the army in the disputed areas

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Baghdad / Obelisk: The Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan region revealed, on Saturday August 22, 2020, the fact of joint coordination with the army to protect the disputed areas.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan website quoted the Secretary-General of the Peshmerga Ministry, Jabbar al-Yawar, as saying that the news of opening coordination centers between the Peshmerga and the army in Khanaqin, Kirkuk, Nineveh and others, has nothing to do with the truth, stressing that no coordination center has been opened in the disputed areas.

Al-Yawar added that the two sides reached a common understanding, but to the moment no formal agreement has been reached between the Ministries of Defense and the Peshmerga regarding the return of the Peshmerga to those areas.

On Wednesday, August 19, 2020, the Joint Operations Command denied the return of Peshmerga forces to Kirkuk Governorate, while indicating the existence of cooperation in the field of combating terrorism and security challenges.

The joint operations revealed the details of the meeting with the Peshmerga and the international coalition, that the two assembled discussed topics that were on its agenda, which included strengthening cooperation and coordination in the field of combating terrorism and closing the gaps between the divisions openness line and finding a mechanism for the work of joint coordination centers as well as joint security operations in the regions. Of common security concern.

And she stressed that the meeting ended with an agreement to hold a series of other high-level meetings, in order to start a new and practical relationship to distribute the security sectors through coordination between the center and the region, filling the security vacuums, pursuing ISIS elements and preventing infiltration, and an agreement to open joint centers between Peshmerga officers and the rest Security forces in order to unify visions to pursue the remnants of terrorism.

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