September 03, 2007
by Martin Zehr
The Conservative Voice
There is an authority designated in Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitutional that provides a legal and political justification for going ahead with the Kirkuk Referendum. These are the grounds for moving forward by the National Assembly of the Kurdish Autonomous Region towards that end. The legal actions of the Kurdish Regional Government do NOT require any updated statutory law to implement this. The KRG is already fully empowered to proceed. There are many observations of the current status of Kirkuk made in the book: THE FUTURE OF KURDISTAN IN IRAQ, Edited by Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry and Khaled Salih, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2005. Many of the agreements reached have worked toward preserving the legal authority of Kurdistan to move independently towards the implementation of article 140. “In the 2005 parliamentary elections, 99% of them voted for Kurdish nationalist parties, and in the January 2005 referendum, 98% voted for an independent Kurdistan” in an article by Peter Galbraith entitled: THE WAY TO GO IN IRAQ. This appears in the August 16th issue of the New York Review of Books. This demonstrates the Kurdish popular mandate for moving forward with the Kirkuk referendum. full text
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