03 June 2004 04:20
Iraqi Kurds not pleased with makeup of interim govt
MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax) - Iraqi Kurds are not pleased with the makeup of the country's interim government
which was officially announced on June 1, Shorsh Sayid, an official of the Kurdistan Patriotic Union, told Interfax on
Thursday.
Iraqi Kurds maintain close contacts with the Russian Embassy in
Baghdad, Sayid said. "We want Russia as well as France to play a
"We have asked the Provisional Governing Council to appoint a Kurd to serve as the country's president or
at least prime minister but, regrettably, this was not done," he said.
greater role in passing a new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq and uphold the Kurdish view that complete
sovereignty rather than partial sovereignty be transferred to Iraq which should become a federation," he said.
"The British-U.S. draft resolution ignores these essential demands of Iraqi Kurds, Saiyd said.
True, eight ethnic Kurds will be ministers in the provisional government but "it is more important that the new
Iraqi Constitution spell out all the rights of Kurds so that nobody will curb these rights," he said.
The situation in Iraq will hopefully be stabilized by the time general elections are held in January 2005 and
security will be assured for all Iraqi peoples, Sayid said.
"We want Iraq to become a federation and want both Arabic and Kurdish to be the country's official
languages," he said [IQ ASIA DIP POL RU] ap tj <>
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