Some 35 Kurdish parties discuss Iraq's constitution
Iraq, Politics, 10/28/2002

The chairman of the Kurdistani democratic socialist party, Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, said that the representatives of 35 Kurdish parties started in Iraq's Kurdistan yesterday a panel of discussing a federal project in Iraq, and the draft constitution they will propose to the Iraqi opposition parties after approving it in the united Kurdish parliament.

Mahmoud, whose party is taking part in Talibani government in al- Suleimaneyah, said that the committee in charge of formulating the two draft laws formed by the two main Kurdish parties; the Kurdistani national federation and the Kurdistani democratic party, extended invitations to all Iraqi Kurdistani parties to meet in Kuwisinjaq town, expecting all parties, including the Islamic parties to respond to the invitation, and simultaneously ruled out that the Turkman's front which did not attend recent meetings of the Kurdish parties to take part.

Worthy mentioning that the proposed federation by the Kurds provoked strong Turkish reactions where Turkey threatened to attack the Kurdish areas in Iraq. A Kurdish delegation chaired by Nigervan Barazani held last Thursday talks with officials at the Turkish foreign ministry and with western ambassadors on Saturday in order to contain the tension between the two sides.

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