Article 140 Committee elected parliamentary deputy Mohsen al-Sadoun as its chairman

By: Bian4
Date: Sunday 02/09/2012 04:58 pm



Baghdad / WAP / committee decided to Article parliamentary hundred and forty, Sunday, elected MP for the coalition of Kurdish blocs Muhsin al-Sadoun as its chairman.

The MP said Muhsin al-Sadoun told Baghdad International / WAP / Sunday, "the Commission on Article 140 parliamentary met, today, and elected me as its chairman and elected MP from the Sadrist bright Naji Vice me."

Sadoun said that "the Commission will begin its supervisory next week to oversee the work of the Ministerial Committee on the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution."

Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution on the normalization of the situation in the province of Kirkuk and disputed areas in other provinces such as Nineveh and Diyala, and set period of time expired in the atheist and the thirtieth of December 2007 to implement all provisions in the said article of procedures, also left for the people of those areas free report determination whether survival and independent administrative unit or attached to Iraqi Kurdistan through a referendum, but the obstacles many have delayed the implementation of some basic items in the above-mentioned article for reasons politicians say the Kurds as political, while Baghdad says that the delay is deliberate, knowing that he already Ministerial Committee competent the application of article, that carried out some paragraphs, such as compensation for those affected, have not been implemented mainly a referendum on the fate of the city.

With supports the Kurds strongly the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution, showing a section of Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk and other areas in protest at the implementation, for fear of possible annexation of oil-rich province to the Kurdistan region, after accusing them of Kurdish parties to bring hundreds of thousands of Kurdish population of the city to change its identity demographic, and that system was Saddam Hussein also had other bring hundreds of thousands of Arabs to in the seventies and eighties of the last century under a policy of Arabization applied in these areas at the time.

Noteworthy that the Article 140 Committee, formed in 2006, and is chaired by the former Minister of Higher Education Raed Fahmi and then headed the current Minister of Transport Hadi al-Amiri, and to oversee the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk and other disputed territories, and the payment of compensation. / Ended 3



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