It is better to divide Iraq: Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the middle and west, and Shiites in the south
The New York Times said the U.S. claim that the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, by drawing on the rule of a federal Iraq, is the national government is weaker and more to control the provinces, revived fears that the province of Kurdistan has been trying to secede in the end.
The paper says that with the deepening of the stalemate in Baghdad after the announcement of de-number of candidates, as well as recount the prominent leaders of the blocks, including Barzani has been aggressively wooing them by other parties to form a parliamentary coalition, in the end allows the formation of the government.In the opinion of the newspaper he was not there is more virulent clearly Barzani in the race to take a position.
He directly oversees the issues because he wants to influence them have major consequences for the stability of Iraq.In an interview with Sam Dagher, Barzani said that he was determined to clinch the commitments in advance of any potential partners in the coalition in Baghdad on the already volatile issues such as disputed internal boundaries, including the city of Kirkuk, the oil-rich North and the sharing of oil revenues.
Barzani said, in his mountain, which oversees the Irbil «impossible for us to join or support the Government will pursue the same old road». And established the election on March 7 (March) Website Barzani dominant voice in Iraqi Kurdish politics, as the Kurdistan Democratic Party won 29 seats out of the 57 in the parliament for the Kurds, and three other seats allocated to the Iraqi minorities, candidates backed by his party. Barzani and succeeded in persuading all the Kurdish groups to go to Baghdad, under the banner despite all the sharp differences among them.
This is due partly to the occupation of the other party the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan to second place, after the fragmentation and the formation of the MDC, which called for an end to corruption in the region.The newspaper said the proof that the Kurds advancing forward came in the last week when he formed the Kurdistan parliament in a quiet new committee «to recover the historic territory», including Kirkuk and hot spots in Nineveh under the influence of the Kurdistan Regional Government, but nominally under the central government.
In the interview, Barzani said that he believed that the only hope for stability in Iraq be divided into federal regions, and preferably to be three: the Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and west, Shiites in the south. He said Baghdad would become «the capital of a federated» complete and essential governmental functions. And sub-talk about a unified Iraq strongly that «bird of dreams and wishes».
He said that he had personally participated in drafting the agenda of the negotiations to ensure the harsh demands of regional and extra money for the Peshmerga forces to resolve differences with Baghdad on how to distribute oil revenues.The newspaper reported that a Kurdish critical applications will be apart of the next prime minister to implement Article 140 of the Constitution, an input lead of the steps towards holding a referendum on the fate of the disputed northern territories, and including Kirkuk.
He warned Barzani «if Article 140 did not apply, this will mean a yard of the Constitution and Iraq itself».In the opinion of the newspaper by the powerful Barzani, a Kurdish victory will not guarantee full in the negotiations on these issues, of course. The American officials have urged the Kurds to retreat from some of the most stringent applications.And stresses that a return to Article 140 is one example that tries to soften the position of the Americans while supporting the Kurdish self-rule in Iraq are relatively larger. Barzani says that one of the main reasons for dropping their opposition to the Kurds to the election law in November (November) the promise of President Obama that the United States «pushing hard» to put into practice Article 140.
The promise of Obama's first phone call at that time and then repeated at a meeting in the Oval Office in January (January).
But a U.S. diplomat substantially in Baghdad told the newspaper that while Obama was given broad support to Iraq's constitution, including Article 140, the U.S. government at all levels have made it very clear to the Kurdish leaders that the determination continuous referendum on everything or nothing about the disputed areas without an agreement negotiated with Baghdad was «a recipe for creating the crisis».The newspaper quoted a diplomat who requested anonymity, according to the rules of diplomacy to say «When I tried the Balkans, it is without a referendum, it has caused bloodshed».
He said that the United States and the United Nations are still trying to persuade the Kurds to stay away from the final warnings in connection with Article 140 by highlighting the benefits of economic and financial integration with the larger Iraq.
He hoped that another Western diplomat said the budget situation is challenging the fact that the Kurdish national Arabs and Turkmen who have done remarkably well in Kirkuk and Nineveh in the elections adamantly opposed to Article 140.
Says Asos Hardi, editor of an independent Kurdish newspaper Awene that if the Kurdish leaders are serious about Article 140 and not only interested in their authority, they withdrew from Maliki's government when he turned hostile to the Kurdish claims two years ago ».
He added that «the only remaining hope for the Kurds is to exploit the divisions among the components of other Iraqi Shiites, meaning».
He concluded by saying «There are lots of opportunities for the Kurds have played if properly».
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