I would like to convey the greetings of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is part of Iraq, to the Assembly.

Since 1991, the Iraqi Kurdistan region in the north has managed to rid itself of the tyranny of dictatorship and implement successful development programmes, accompanied by a democratic parliamentary system and the rational investment of resources.

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The Constitution Drafting Committee is chaired by Sheikh Humaam Al Hammoudi of the United Iraqi Alliance. Fouad Ma'suum of the Kurdistan Alliance List and Adnan Janabi of the Iraqi List serve as deputy chairs.

It committed crimes of genocide against the Iraqi people in Kurdistan, in areas such as Halabja, and in the south during the popular uprising.

The United Iraq Alliance has 28 members, the Kurdistan Alliance 15 members and the Iraqi List 8 members. Smaller groups have four members on the Committee.

UNHCR also included in its activities other institutions, such as the Iraqi Property Claims Commission and the Kurdistan Regional Government, as well as NGOs and other partners.

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Iraqi army units continue to assume security responsibility in the western region.

The experience of Iraqi Kurdistan shows truly that human development cannot continue to make progress or achieve the desired results in a society in which injustice and human rights violations prevail.

In addition, he met regularly with an informal commission of Kurds from Kurdistan which was created to work with the United Iraqi Alliance Committee of Seven to work through contentious issues.

Moreover, the chances that Iraqi Kurdistan will achieve de facto or de jure independence are greater than ever. Iraq s Kurds may even be able to extend their influence into Kurdish populated northern Syria, thereby becoming a more influential regional player than the Iraqi government in Baghdad.

First, they are weary of renewed Iranian attempts to destabilize Iraq. Security forces recently intercepted suicide bombers entering Iraqi Kurdistan from Iran, with, Kurdish leaders believe, the support and training of Iranian intelligence.

(By contrast, reconstruction in Iraqi Kurdistan is occurring at breakneck speed.) Iraqis are about to enter their 11th summer, when temperatures routinely exceed 50 C, with no more than sporadic power and running water.

The Committee was originally composed of 28 members from the United Iraq Alliance, 15 from the Kurdistan Alliance and 8 from the Iraqi List, together with 4 members representing Turkmen, Assyrian Christians and Yezidis.

Ms. Firtina Ciler, KOMKAR Verband der Vereine aus Kurdistan

On 12 June the inaugural session of the Kurdistan National Assembly elected Massoud Barzani to a four year term as President of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

West Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Fars, Lorestan, Hormozgan and Bushehr.

The south and Kurdistan have been the regions least affected.

Prolonged negotiations between the Kurdistan Alliance and the United Iraqi Alliance, the two political groupings with the largest number of seats in the new Assembly, resulted in a memorandum of understanding that laid the basis for government formation.

The way to peace and security was to return control of the region to the Iraqi central Government.

It is a source of pride for us that Iraqi Kurdistan has become a model for democratic experience, rehabilitation and economic, cultural and social development, just as it was a fortress for free Iraqis in their struggle against dictatorship.

These amendments related to the following issues the federal and united character of Iraq the use of the two official languages of Iraq by the federal and official institutions in the Kurdistan region Iraqi citizenship the administration of national treasures , such as archaeological sites and historic buildings the question of de Baathification and the institution of a constitutional review process.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

249. In addition, allegations concerning a new wave of violence, including murders, of Iranian exiles living abroad, as well as information regarding attacks on Iranian Kurds in Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan by Iranian forces have also reached the Special Rapporteur.

The fraternal Iraqi people and the region were thereby spared any further perils and security and stability were upheld.

The desert region Comprising the desert plains in the south east of the country on the Jordanian and Iraqi borders.

Nevertheless, the Government took care to ensure that the region apos s population were represented in the Iraqi National Assembly.

In that regard, France welcomes the prospects of an Iraqi national conference organized with the assistance of countries in the region to promote the integration of all Iraqi groups and communities into the political process.

While Iraqi military forces subsequently withdrew from the territories of northern Iraq to which they had advanced, reports and allegations received allege that the Iraqi security services and their agents remain active in the region.

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Concerning the allegations of forced displacement, what was in fact happening was that the populations of the governorates of Dohuk, Irbil and Sulaymaniyah had to flee periodic clashes between the Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan, the latest of which had been going on since October 1997, as well as intermittent Turkish invasions.

Factional fighting between the two main political parties in Northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), coupled with the intervention of outside powers, resulted in population movements both inside Iraq and to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In spite of the volatile security environment, we urge the Iraqi Government to do its utmost to ensure full respect for human rights by all Iraqi authorities, including the Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi police.

5. At 1240 hours and 1310 hours on 17 October 1997, United States military aircraft violated Iraqi airspace over the Umm Qasr region and Mina apos al Bakr.

6. At 1240 hours and 1510 hours on 21 October 1997, United States military aircraft again violated Iraqi airspace over the Umm Qasr region, alarming the civilian population.

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