Legal expert: the new Kurdistan agreed borders since 2003, between 5 Kurds and American leaders


2016-01-11 07:20:20 | (Voice of Iraq) - Twilight News

Said legal expert Tareq Harb, that the borders of the Kurdistan Region established by the leaders of the Kurds in agreement with the United States and the United Nations, did not stand in them when they are received in the Constitution, noting that the trench, who said pit houses Lands Kirkuk and Khanaqin and Jalula.

He said the war: "Commenting on the Kurdistan Regional procedures digging a trench starts from Rabia west to the south of Kirkuk and to the south of Jalawla and ends at the Iranian border to the east, say that the Kurdish leaders in the government which was formed on July 13 Council in 2003 and they Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, and Salahuddin Bahauddin, and Mahmoud Othman, and Dara Noureddine, and when writing the Iraqi State Administration Law for the transitional period (the Interim Constitution) agreed the three parties who are Kurdish leaders and the US side and the side that represents the United Nations in writing that the Interim Constitution to include the geographical boundaries of the Constitution of the Kurdistan Regional Government. " .

"And after a long discussion between the three parties of the Kurds, and the United States, the United Nations, we got the agreement on the formula contained in Article 53 of the Interim Constitution, which stipulates that recognizes the Kurdistan Regional Government as the official government of the territory, which was administered by mentioned in the 19/3 / Government 2003 any agreement to be the geographical boundaries of the region are the borders of the region before the war to topple Saddam's regime and the border markers accurately and fairly centimeter in the maps held by coalition countries which set up a war and the many other destinations. "

He said the war "Therefore, we believe that when he was the official ceremony on 8/3/2004 signed and approved by the referee of the 25-member Council on this Interim Constitution after completing the writing and approval of the members of the Governing Council of the 25 and the internationalism of America and the reservation at a party celebrating some members of the Governing Council Shiites on some of the provisions of the Interim Constitution, either Kurdish leaders did not so cautious on any of the provisions of this Constitution, including the provision in Article 53 that have been identified geographical boundaries of the Kurdistan border and not far reality only a few kilometers from the city of Arbil and more than that for the city of Sulaymaniyah " .

He pointed out that "the borders of the region begins west of hand He is no before arriving at the administrative border of the province of Nineveh, and these northern Kirkuk border more than seventy kilometers north of Khanaqin and Jalula equal to this distance, and the current trench was planned to be Kirkuk and lands south of Kirkuk and Khanaqin and Jalula Jnobhma land and a large part of the territory of the province of Nineveh from the territory of the Kurdistan region. "

And between "us to imagine the difference between a constitutional provision and governance realistic when digging the trench has been confirmed border-mentioned Article 53 of the Interim Constitution again to Article 143 of the Constitution of 2005, which abolished all the provisions of the Interim Constitution and kept on Article 53 of the Kurdistan own borders."

He continued war, "so that the border that we have mentioned are confirmed by the Constitution Transitional Iraqi state Transitional Administrative Law and in the Permanent Constitution of 2005 or the issue of the disputed territory it may another matter, Article 140 of the Permanent Constitution necessitated the three stages of normalization, census and referendum and has not yet completed the first phase Private normalization ".

The MP Jassem Mohammed Jaafar, said yesterday that, the province of Kurdistan "is digging a trench for the demarcation of the borders, adding that" the trench Kurdish extending from Chenkal in the Syrian border and Mara of the Nineveh Plain, Erbil and Kirkuk, Salahuddin and Diyala up to Khanaqin on the Iranian border. "

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