– Journal News
President Fuad Masoum launched an initiative that includes a road map to contain the crisis of the Kurdistan referendum scheduled for September 25.
According to the text of the initiative, “Based on the meetings, consultations and contacts held by the President of the Republic, Fuad Masoum, with the leaders and leaders of the blocks and the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the ambassadors of the major powers and the proposals and ideas and initiatives on the referendum of the region, it was agreed to put forward the following initiative In front of all parties, for the purpose of adoption and approval as a road map to resolve all outstanding problems between the region and the federal government and at all levels.
“The adoption of the United Nations paper presented by the representative of the UN Secretary-General Jan Kubic, which was accepted by the five permanent members of the Security Council, which includes the following:” Negotiations between the parties begin in September 2017 without preconditions to resolve outstanding problems according to the principle of partnership “He said.
And stressed the “need to complete these negotiations within a period of time not exceeding three years,” adding that “the United Nations supports the process of negotiations and implementation of the terms of the agreement between the parties.”
“Based on this agreement, the provincial government decides not to hold the referendum to be held on 25/9/2017 and in the case of failure to achieve those negotiations are referenda to the referendum.”
She pointed out that “in order to achieve this initiative is the formation of a high committee and committees supervising all the dialogues and what is required of them in order to make these negotiations successful through the formation of the Supreme Committee, which is headed by the President of the Republic and includes the Prime Minister of the Federal Council and the President of the Council of Representatives and the President of the Council of Ministers of the Territory and the involvement of the Representative of the Secretary-General United Nations “.
She pointed out that “there should be three committees overseeing the dialogues and negotiations include the Legislative Committee and concerned the completion of outstanding legislation between the province and the federal government, and the executive committee to follow up the implementation of decisions and decisions issued by the federal government and the region, and the political committee and cost all that would resolve political files Relationship “.
The initiative noted that “the time limit for ending the outstanding issues between the region and the federal government should be no more than three years.”
“The period of 18 months to be the first to resolve the executive files that have been issued legislation or decisions are still invalid, in addition to the need to complete all legislation to be enacted by the federal legislative authority and the region and decisions to be issued by the federal executive authority and the region.
The initiative also said that “the second 18-month period will be to resolve all files that issue legislation or decisions as a result of the negotiations that have been held.”
It concluded that “the resolution of all issues referred to by the Constitution has not been implemented such as constitutional amendments or self-determination of Kirkuk in accordance with Article 140 of the Constitution and the disputed areas and other outstanding issues.”