***** Massoud Barzani: Article 140 completed and ended after the entry of the Peshmerga into Kirkuk

Friday June 27, 2014 13:10


Alsumaria News / Erbil


The president of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, said Friday that Article 140 of the constitution had been "completed and finished" after the entry of the Peshmerga forces to the disputed areas after the withdrawal of army troops from them.

Barzani said in a joint press conference today in Erbil with British Foreign Secretary William Hague and attended "Alsumaria News", "The entry of the Peshmerga forces to Kirkuk province ended the article 140 of the constitution of the disputed areas."

He added that the president of the Kurdistan region, "the Peshmerga forces were concentrated in the disputed areas in accordance with Article 140 of the Constitution after the withdrawal of army troops, including elements of the regulation and control of Daash them."

He continued, "Our patience has 10 years with the federal government to resolve the issue of disputed territories in accordance with Article 140, but it was to no avail," noting that "the entry of the Peshmerga forces to these areas came to protect and prevent the fall in the hands of terrorists after the withdrawal of government troops from them."

Barzani stressed, "For us now Article 140 completed and finished and will not talk about it anymore"

The leader of the Kurdistan Alliance Chuan Mohamed Taha counting, in (June 17, 2014), by the presence of the Peshmerga forces in the disputed areas has become a "reality" and will not withdraw from it, in what was considered the security forces of the Federal part of the problem that causes the deterioration of the security.

Accused the MP for the coalition united to reform Suhad al-Obeidi in (June 25, 2014), some political leaders employment agendas for the U.S. to divide Iraq into regions, as pointed out that Article 140 of the Constitution by force applied in some disputed areas.

Iraq has been a deterioration in security remarkable push Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (June 10, 2014), to declare a state of high alert in the country, after the control of the armed organization "Daash" on the Nineveh province, fully, and progress towards the Salahuddin province, and their control over some areas, before security forces to be able to heavy losses, at which time it extended the full control of the Peshmerga forces to Kirkuk province after the withdrawal of army troops from them.

Article 140 of the 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 time period ended on December 31, 2007, for the implementation of all provisions in the above-mentioned article of the proceedings, as given to the people of those areas freedom of self-determination of both survival and independent administrative unit or attached to the Kurdistan Region by organizing a referendum.



It is noteworthy that the Kurds support strongly the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution, at the time show the Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk and other areas in protest at the execution, for fear of the possibility of incorporating conservative oil-rich Kurdistan region, after being accused of Kurdish parties to bring hundreds of thousands of Kurds to live in those areas to change its identity demographic, which was the former regime may also bring other hundreds of thousands of Arab residents in the seventies and eighties of the last century under a policy of Arabization applied in these areas at the time.


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