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- Title: Mixed Reactions to Call for Kurds' Self-Determination (Kurds)
- Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Release Date : January 18, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani's call on Dec. 11 that his semi-autonomous region has the right to self-determination and to the disputed city of Kirkuk, has been welcome by many Kurds, Turkmens and Christians in Iraq and sneered at by most Shiites and Sunnis. The fate of Kirkuk, which is located above some of Iraq's largest oil reserves, is one of the main issues of contention between the Kurdish region and the central government in Baghdad, which are locked in disputes over land and some of the world's richest oilfields. Barzani told a congress of his Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Erbil that Kurdistan's right to Kirkuk was nonnegotiable. "The Kurdish identity of Kirkuk is not a matter of bargaining," he said, the London-based daily ASHARQ AL AWSAT and others reported the following day. At the same event, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he would meet the constitutional deadline to form Iraq's new government. He was charged on Nov. 25 with putting together a cabinet and had 30 days to deliver, the Saudi-owned newspaper said. Iraq has been without a new government for more than nine months after a March election failed to produce a clear winner. Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions squabbled for months over position and power before finally reaching a compromise last month that would include all the major political blocs in the next government.
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