Iraqi president sends books in the Kurdish language to north Iraq

The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has ordered to send three million school books to the students of Kurdistan which is out of the control of Baghdad since 1991, besides his decision to approve studying in the Kurdish language in all school curricula until the secondary stage of learning.

The Iraqi daily "Iraq" quoted the director general of the Kurdish teaching at the Iraqi ministry of education Hussein Muhammad Qaddouri as saying that:" at the directives of the Iraqi President the ministry of education will start as from July 21st the operation of shipping the books and the curricula to the students of the self- rule " Kurdistan district" for the school year 2001-2002.