Saturday, 3 March 2012

KA reiterates rejection to grant 2 seats for Arabs, Turkmen.

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Kurdistan Alliance (KA) bloc, the second largest in the Iraqi parliament, rejected that two seats would be given to Arabs and Turkmen otherwise this would "run counter to the Iraqi constitution".

"The legal committee must find a formula by virtue of which compensatory seats would be granted to Arabs and Turkmen," the KA member Ahmed Anwar told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said that the parliament session on Saturday (Nov. 7) will be held at 1:00 p.m. Baghdad local time but before it a meeting of the Presidency Board (PB) will be convened with legal committee and the parties concerned with the issue of Kirkuk.

Anwar …

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