Kurdish Lawmakers Rebuke Other Iraqi Lawmakers’ Claim

PUKmedia     16:40    09/05/2008

Today a group of the Kurdish lawmakers in the Iraqi Council of Representatives held a press conference in Baghdad in which they stated that Shangal, Zimar, Makhmour and Shekhan areas in Nineveh province are historically, demographically and geographically part of Kurdistan region.
As the lawmaker, Rauf Othman, said, the Kurdistan Alliance bloc is committed to the Iraqi constitution – the bloc works for bringing those areas back to Kurdistan region according to article 140 of the constitution.
The statement came after another group of Iraqi lawmakers led by Osama Nijefi recently alleged that the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces try to annex those areas to Kurdistan region by force while they are part of the Arab territories. Rauf Othman said that those Iraqi lawmakers are against the Iraq’s new experiment and its constitution.