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| The Kurdish Constitutional Dispute |
| 2004-06-10 |
| Another post covers what Brahimi is saying. Here is an excerpt from the Daily State Department Press Briefing and Two excerpts from the Iraqi Daily News Summary provided by IWPR. QUESTION: You’re not objecting to our omission in the UN Security Council resolution? MR. BOUCHER: There was language in the resolution, I think, that took note of the basic principles that they were most interested in. They, I think, had looked for a specific mention of the Transitional Administrative Law that does guide Iraq during the transition. This government that was formed is now part of an annex to that law, as described in the annex to that law, so the question was whether that was specifically in the resolution. What the resolution did was stuck to the basic principles that are embodied in that law. I think you’ll see Ambassador Negroponte mentioned it specifically in his explanation of vote yesterday, and that is that it is a federal, democratic, pluralist and unified Iraq. That’s in the resolution, that’s in the TAL, those are the principles that we were all looking for in terms of the new government and we’re glad to see that there is a new government that does just that. Snip- Sistani warns against UNSC involvement in interim law (Al-Qassim al-Mushtarak) - Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al- Husseini al-Sistani has warned aagainst including any reference to the interim administrative law in the resolution being discussed by the UN Security Council. Sistani’s office announced on Monday that any reference to the interim law approved by the Governing Council would be illegal, rejected by the majority of the people of Iraq, and would imply danger. The announcement said the interim law, drafted under occupation by an unelected govedrnment and affected directly by the occupation authority, fettered the national assembly which will be elected in 2005 and which will draft a permanent law for Iraq.(Al-Qassim Al-Mushtarak is issued twice a week by Sabhan Mulla Chyad.) Barzani warns of failing to include interim law (Al-Taakhi) - Head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan Masoud Barzani said calling off the interim administrative law drafted unanimously by the Iraqi patriotic powers jeopardises the future of Iraq as a unified state. He said the people of Kurdistan are not ready to accept anything but a democratic system in Iraq. This statement came after some Iraqi groups tried to cancel the law approved by the Governing Council in February and exclude it from the new project. |
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