The Commission on Article 140: the allocation of $ 170 million is not enough to end the normalization in the disputed areas

Baghdad, 30 April (Rn) – The Chairman of the Commission on Implementation of Article 140 that the Iraqi government has allocated $ 170 million for projects of Article 140 of the Constitution, it is not enough at all for an end to the issue of compensation of the disputed areas.

Said Raed Fahmi, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) “The Iraqi government allocated during the current year amount of $ 170 million within the budget of the Presidential Council of Ministers, which is not enough at all to end the crisis of the disputed areas.”

He added that “the political blocs is not serious in the development of final solutions to close the file of the disputed areas and compensation for the deportees and immigrants according to a plan done by the Committee Rule Supreme to implement Article 140″.

He explained that “the Iraqi government is working to broaden the discussion with the main political polarization in the disputed areas to resolve the problem with a common vision does not cause confuse the political and security situation in the country during the next stage.”

The Commission asked for the application of Article 140 of the Iraqi government to allocate two billion dollars to compensate for the 150 000 family by deporting the former regime.

The Article 140 is one of the articles of the permanent Iraqi constitution to resolve the issue of disputed areas between the Kurdistan Regional Government in Arbil, the federal government in Baghdad, according to the article had to be the implementation of the paragraphs of the three end of 2007, which provides for the re-normal position of these areas and re-displaced in exchange for re- arrivals to their original places, and in the second paragraph should be a census year in these areas, along with the third paragraph to provide for the public opinion poll to vote on the accession of these areas to Kurdistan or to the federal government in Baghdad, has not been so far the implementation of any clause of these paragraphs are addressed in three stages: normalization, and then conduct a census, followed by a referendum among the population on the fate of disputed areas.

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