The statute of Kurds in the new Iraqi Constitution

"On september 10th, good conference of Saywan Barzani, the KRG represenative in France. Clear and synthetic, and giving all elements to decide if Kurds could be satisfied or not of the Constitution. I transcript a survey.

Having recalled the different dispositions and provisionnal laws in Iraq since the liberation, Saywan presented the play of the 3 mains groups which have debated on the Constitution : Kurds, Sunnites and Shiites and the impossibility to make an agreement before August 15th.

Sunnites would have like a dossilution of the Assembly and the organisation of new elections. Kurds were not against it, for it would have not changed their own score but Shiites refused, fearing that their majority would be less important if Sunnites vote (they have boycotted the last elections). So the Committes had asked a delay of 3 days and at the end on August 28th, a provisionnal text had been presented (40 points shoud be decided later)."
KBU