Kurdish parliament backs UN Iraq resolution

[Dover]

Kurdish parliament backs UN Iraq resolution


Saturday 12 June 2004, 4:10 Makka Time, 1:10 GMT



The Kurdish parliament has endorsed the new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq after political leaders earlier expressed anger over the document's failure to mention Kurdish self-rule.


A special session of the Kurdish parliament had been called on Friday to examine resolution 1546 adopted earlier in the week, which omitted any reference to Iraq's interim constitution or Kurdish aspirations for autonomy.

The Kurdish parliament, which groups the two main Kurdish factions - the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union for Kurdistan - convened in Arbil, 350 kilometres north of the capital.

"The Kurdish parliament has decided to adopt a positive position toward the UN Security Council resolution because the entire world has expressed its respect for the fundamental law," said Roj Nuri Shawis, a vice president in Iraq's caretaker government and the Kurdish parliament speaker....cont'd

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/44424004-87CA-405B-BE78-EAB5C3780ECB.htm

[NMDemDist2]

1. hmmm I thought they were mad they didn't get veto power

interesting

[Teaser]

2. Kurd leadership has been selling out the movement for a while

This will fracture the movement. I guarantee it.

Kurdish leaders are going to start dying by Kurd hands, I'm afraid.

[NMDemDist2]

3. great, just what the region needs, more instability

crap