Provincial boundaries. Solution or problem?

Provincial boundaries. Solution or problem?


The Iraqi Council of representatives
 
24.06.2013

Legacies of the former regime within various it between provinces and is one of the outstanding problems between the different political parties and ethnic and regional. The former regime introduced changes to the administrative boundaries and grant request as a fief her land from provinces neighbouring or downplayed other expanded County area and established the Salah al-Din Province, for example, which did not exist originally, deduction of land from Baghdad and Nineveh.There are numerous other examples.
And that still, even mounted occasional voices calling for redrawing the border, particularly between Karbala and Anbar, Ninewa and Salah al-Din and Muthanna, Dhi Qar, Diyala, Baghdad.
Last Saturday (22 June 2013), first Deputy Chairman of Parliament Qusay Al-Suhail, who reportedly resigned today (Monday), a meeting of heads and representatives of parliamentary blocs, to discuss the draft law on the administrative demarcation of provinces.
In a statement issued after the meeting called Suhail Commission the regions and governorates that are not organized in a region and the legal Committee to a joint meeting with the Presidium of the House of representatives to discuss the draft law on the administrative demarcation of provinces.
This meeting and the potential Bill to debate the effects of different reactions to the political parties. The Iraqi list warned of discussion of this law at the present juncture of Iraqi MP said Qusay Fri radio free Iraq to let this issue first to attempt to resolve them and warned that there are sensitivities surrounding this law, and also warned Iraqis not to absorb the idea of genuine federalism which creates fears of separation and Division.
State law, however, expressed a different opinion as stated by MP Saad demands that he supported discussion of the law, but under the dome of the Parliament and not in the media and said it was part of the application of article 140 is constitutional. Motallebi supported different opinions and concerns in Parliament sessions and discussion of law and then see what happens.
For his part, supported the Kurdistan Alliance discuss the demarcation of administrative law to the provinces that would replace the problems as stated by MP mehma Khalil described the law as a solution to all the problems and for the political process and said he would restore the rights law took force.
However, the observer is the head of the strategic studies Arabic group is confident al-Hashimi said the law may create problems, and supported carefully by now also expressed concerns that lead to partition, in his view.
The President Jalal Talabani proposed last October to repeal all decrees of the former regime on the administrative boundaries of cities and back to earlier in the period prior to 1968.
Contributed to the preparation of this report, free Iraq radio correspondent in Baghdad, Ahmed Al-Zubaidi



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