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Information and Liaison Bulletin INSTITUT KUDE RPARD IS E Information and liaison bulletin N°295 OCTOBER 2009 The publication of this Bulletin enjoys a subsidy from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGCID) aqnd the Fonds d’action et de soutien pour l’intégration et la lutte contre les discriminations (The Fund for action and support of integration and the struggle against discrimination) This bulletin is issued in French and English Price per issue : France: 6 € — Abroad : 7,5 € Annual subscribtion (12 issues) France : 60 € — Elsewhere : 75 € Monthly review Directeur de la publication : Mohamad HASSAN Numéro de la Commission Paritaire : 659 15 A.S. ISBN 0761 1285 INSTITUT KURDE, 106, rue La Fayette - 75010 PARIS Tel. : 01-48 24 64 64 - Fax : 01-48 24 64 66 www.fikp.org E-mail: [email protected] Bulletin 295 October 2009 Contents • IRBIL: THE NEW CABINET IS SWORN IN. • IRAQI KURDISTAN: A HISTORIC VISIT BY THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER. • TURKEY: THE PKK’S SENDING OF “PEACE GROUPS” STIRS UP TURKISH PUBLIC OPINION. • IRAQI KURDISTAN: A VISIT BY MRS DANIELLE MITTERRAND, WHO OPENS TWO FRENCH LANGUAGE SCHOOLS. • CULTURE: KURDISH FILMS ARE BECOMING MORE VISIBLE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE. IRBIL: THE NEW CABINET IS SWORN IN he new Cabinet of the Laws Commission presented a The fourth article confirmed the Regional Government Bill reorganising the Ministries. maintenance of the Ministry T of Kurdistan has been Culture and that of Sport, sworn in, led by Article 1 dissolved three approved by a majority vote, Barham Salih, former Ministries: Human Rights, Extra- while a fifth article amalgamated Deputy Prime Minister of the Regional Affairs and the the Ministries of Local Iraqi Government and a member Environment. After a debate, Government and Tourism, adopt - of the PUK, who thus takes over these dissolutions were adopted ed unanimously, and a sixth from Nechirvan Barzani. The Irbil without any amendment. amalgamated those of Trade and Parliament endorsed the appoint - The second article announced the Industry. ment of Ministers on the 26th of creation of a Ministry of this month. At the opening of the Transport and Communications, Article 7 reported the reorganisa - session, which was presided by which was unanimously agreed, tion and restructuring of the the Speaker, Kamal Kirkuki, while a third clause set up a Ministries, with various legal assisted by the Deputy Speaker Ministry of Agriculture and measures, and was agreed unani - Arslan Bair and the Secretary of Water Resources, which was mously. the Assembly, Farsat Ahmed, the approved by a majority vote. • 2 • Information and liaison bulletin n° 295 • October 2009 The next day, on 28 November, epic struggles. Having returned Assyrian Minister had felt oblig - the new Cabinet was sworn in, to Iraq with his family, he was ed to resign for reasons of health. with Barham Salih as Prime arrested in 1963 and imprisoned Minister. for 3 months for activity in sup - In addition to the above men - port of Kurdish rights. On his tioned Ministries, the other Barham Salih was born in release, he joined the KDP in Ministries that have been retained Suleimaniah in 1960. He joined 1964. He studied chemistry at are those of Justice, Education, the PUK in 1976, at the age of 16. Mosul University then at Basra, Electricity, Religious Affairs, In the next two years he was becoming Secretary of the Health, Higher Education & twice arrested by the Baathist Kurdish Students Union in 1970. Research, Housing & regime, imprisoned and tortured. Reconstruction, Labour & Social On being released, he continued After the collapse of the 1975 Affairs, the Ministry for Martyrs his education, winning third Kurdish revolt he found refuge in & Victims of the Anfal, of Natural place in the national listing of Iran, where he worked closely Resources, at the top of which Iraqi Advanced Level graduates. with Idris Barzani, the present Ashti Hawrami has been renewed He then left for the United President’s older bother. He was in office, the Ministry of Kingdom to escape further perse - elected to the KDP Central Peshmergas and of Planning, The cution, spending several years in Committee in 1979. In 1982 he ran Government has thus sharply various positions representing the the KDP office in Syria. He played reduced the number of its mem - PUK with various international an important role in the 1991upris - bers, going from 42 to 20 bodies, as well as information ing and was elected to the KDP Ministries. Only 4 of the former activities and campaigning Political Committee in 1993, in Ministers were renewed in office: against the dictatorial Iraqi which he has held and still holds a Karim Sanjari, Ashti Hawrami, regime. At the same time he con - number of responsible positions. Bayiz Talabani and Jafar Mustafa tinued studying engineering, Azad Barwari speaks fluent Arabic Ali, (Minister of Peshmergas. securing a Cardiff University and Persian. degree in civil and structural engineering in 1983, followed by The Minister of the Interior is The new Government thus con - a PhD in Statistics and Computer Abdul Karim Sultan Sinjari, who sists of the following: applications from Liverpool uni - had already held the post of versity in 1987. Secretary of State for the Interior Prime Minister: Barham Salih in the 7 May 2006 reunited gov - After 1991 and the emergence of ernment. In 1973 he was at first a Deputy Prime Minister: Azad the autonomous region of Iraqi lawyer in Baghdad, then became Barwari Kurdistan, he was appointed a Peshmerga and was appointed PUK representative in to the KDP’s provisional leader - Minister of the interior: Abdul Washington. Between 2001 and ship between 1976 and 1980. He Karim Sinjari 2004 he was Prime Minister of the then went into exile in Sweden PUK’s zone of Iraqi Kurdistan. until 1988, before returning to Minister of Finance and the After the reunification of the Kurdistan as head of the KDP’s Economy: Bayiz Saeed Kurdistan Region and the over - security services. Following the Mohammad Talabani throw of the Baath he was 1992 parliamentary elections in Minister of Planning in the the autonomous region. He was Minister of Justice: Raouf Rashid Provisional Iraqi Government appointed Director General of the Abdulrahman and finally Deputy Prime Kurdistan security forces before Minister in Nuri al-Maliki’s being appointed Minister of the Minister of Agriculture Water Cabinet. In addition to his mother Interior in the Irbil Government Resources: Jamil Sleiman Haider tongue, he speaks fluent Arabic while still holding posts in the and English. KDP Central Committee until Minister of Culture and Youth: 2001. Karim Sinjari also speaks Kawa Mahmoud Shakir The Deputy Prime Minister, Azad Swedish, English Arabic and Minister of Education: Safeen Barwari, is a veteran member of Persian. Mohsin Diyazee Massud Barzani’s KDP. Like the The Minister of Finance and the Minister of Electricity: (pending latter, he was born in Mahabad in Economy is Bayiz Sayeed confirmation ) 1946, in a family of Peshmergas Mohammad Talabani, who has who were taking part in that already replaced Sargis Aghajian Minister of Religious Affairs: Republic’s and Mustafa Barzani’s in the previous Cabinet when the Kamil Ali Aziz n° 295 • October 2009 Information and liaison bulletin • 3• Minister of Health: Taher Minister of Local Government & Communications: Anwar Jabali Abdullah Hussein Hawrami Tourism: Samir Abdullah Mustafa Sabo Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Natural Resources: President of the Council of Research: Dlawer A. A, Ashti Hawrami Ministers: Nouri Othman Ala’Aldeen Minister of Peshmergas: Jafar President of the Investment Minister of housing and Mustafa Ali Committee: Herish Muharam Reconstruction: Kamaran Ahmed Abdullah Minister of Planning: Ali Osman Secretary of Cabinet: Mohammad Haji Badri Sindi Qaradagi Minister Labour and Social Affairs: Asos Najib Abdullah Minister of Trade & Industry: Sinan Abdulkhalq Ahmed Chalabi Director of the Department for Minister for Martyrs & Anfal: International Relations: Falah Majid Hamad Amin Jamil Minister of Transport & Mustafa Bakir IRAQI KURDISTAN: A HISTORIC VISIT BY THE TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER his month saw a concrete Salih, and the Iraqi Foreign gratulated the present Turkish gov - improvement in the Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, who is, ernment on its initiatives to try and T diplomatic relations himself, a Kurd. resolve the Kurdish question in between Turkey and Iraqi Turkey: “ I think that the Turkish lead - Kurdistan, as shown by They later met the Region’s ers can deal with the PKK problem. the visit to Irbil, on 11 October, of President, Massud Barzani, who They have taken a very courageous the Turkish Foreign Minister praised the Turkish decision to decision and we totally support the pol - together with the announcement of open a consulate in his capital. “ The icy of reconciliation with the Kurds of the opening of a Turkish Consulate decision to open a consulate at Irbil is a Turkey. May God wish that violence in the Kurdish capital in the near very positive step. Turkey’s role is cease as soon as possible and that the future. important for the Region’s future and Kurdish and Turkish youth no longer for the development of our economic have to shed their blood ”. Mr. Ahmed Davotoglu is the first links. The Kurdistan Region serves as Turkish Minister to visit the Iraqi a bridge between Iraq and Turkey ”. According to the Turkish Minister, Kurdistan Region, since hitherto the Kurds and Turkey have a com - Turkey has refused officially to Ahmed Davotoglo also stressed the mon part to play in ensuring the recognise the Kurdish government economic and geographic interde - stability not only of their borders as a real political partner, even pendence of Turkey and Iraq. “ Iraq, but also of the whole of the Middle though informal contacts have as a multi-ethnic state, is very impor - East, which, in his view, should be never ceased since the creation of tant to us and we will consider any a political area of security, of dia - the autonomous Kurdish zone in security threat tot Iraq as a threat to logue and of multi-ethnic and 1992.
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