07 March 2011
Erbil - Iraq's president and the secretary-general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani said on Monday that an opposition is necessary for progress and development of Kurdistan, noting that his party has decided with the Kurdistan Democratic Party to make reforms in the region.
Talabani said in a speech during a ceremony held in Sulaimaniyah to the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of March uprising in the nineties of the last century that "the opposition has to maintain the unity and integrity of the people, as their presence is essential for the progress of Kurdistan, we believe in different opinions and ideas."
"We support and work to achieve the demands made by the demonstrators and work to improve the living conditions of society."
The Kurdish people has a mass uprising against the former regime in the spring of 1991, including local people in cities and towns as well as Kurdish Peshmarga forces, which led to the liberation of most of the provinces and cities in Kurdistan from the grip of the former Iraqi regime.
"We support this kind such as the protest that took place in Sulaimaniyah and demonstrate peacefully, this is a legitimate right of every society which is contained in the permanent Iraqi constitution as well as in the Constitution of Kurdistan."
" we hope that these demonstrations are peaceful and the demonstrators would deal in a civilized way with the security forces and we condemn any kind of violence and murder if it was by the demonstrators or security forces ".
Sulaimaniyah the second largest city of Kurdistan is experiencing since Thursday of 17 of last February several protests that demand to fight against corruption and provide jobs for the unemployed and political reforms, but it transferred into clashes between demonstrators and security forces that killed and injured a number of people.
Kurdistan Parliament issued a resolution last week about the situation in the region, which included 17 points, and called representatives of the political blocs in parliament to listen to the demands of the demonstrators, and support the results of the national dialogue between political parties and political blocs represented by the members of parliament.
Kurdistan is witnessing mobility internally among the various political parties in an effort to calm the situation after Sulaimaniyah experienced tension on the background of the demonstrations.
Kurdistan region's President , Massoud Barzani demanded on Thursday the need to address the situation in the region, , also stressed at the same time the absence of the President for life in the region.
Erbil - Iraq's president and the secretary-general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani said on Monday that an opposition is necessary for progress and development of Kurdistan, noting that his party has decided with the Kurdistan Democratic Party to make reforms in the region.
Talabani said in a speech during a ceremony held in Sulaimaniyah to the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of March uprising in the nineties of the last century that "the opposition has to maintain the unity and integrity of the people, as their presence is essential for the progress of Kurdistan, we believe in different opinions and ideas."
"We support and work to achieve the demands made by the demonstrators and work to improve the living conditions of society."
The Kurdish people has a mass uprising against the former regime in the spring of 1991, including local people in cities and towns as well as Kurdish Peshmarga forces, which led to the liberation of most of the provinces and cities in Kurdistan from the grip of the former Iraqi regime.
"We support this kind such as the protest that took place in Sulaimaniyah and demonstrate peacefully, this is a legitimate right of every society which is contained in the permanent Iraqi constitution as well as in the Constitution of Kurdistan."
" we hope that these demonstrations are peaceful and the demonstrators would deal in a civilized way with the security forces and we condemn any kind of violence and murder if it was by the demonstrators or security forces ".
Sulaimaniyah the second largest city of Kurdistan is experiencing since Thursday of 17 of last February several protests that demand to fight against corruption and provide jobs for the unemployed and political reforms, but it transferred into clashes between demonstrators and security forces that killed and injured a number of people.
Kurdistan Parliament issued a resolution last week about the situation in the region, which included 17 points, and called representatives of the political blocs in parliament to listen to the demands of the demonstrators, and support the results of the national dialogue between political parties and political blocs represented by the members of parliament.
Kurdistan is witnessing mobility internally among the various political parties in an effort to calm the situation after Sulaimaniyah experienced tension on the background of the demonstrations.
Kurdistan region's President , Massoud Barzani demanded on Thursday the need to address the situation in the region, , also stressed at the same time the absence of the President for life in the region.
© AK News 2011
