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Kurdistan willing to guarantee the rights of Arabs and parliamentary representation

Shafaq News/ A member of the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region, Sunday, revealed that  the region parliament and political leadership and the people of Kurdistan are ready to guarantee the rights of all the components that coexist in the region, pledging to represent the Arabs living in the disputed areas in the event of the accession of those areas to the region of Kurdistan.Ali Hussein, Faily  told "Shafaq  News" " What the Kurdistan Parliament  will do first in the case of accession of the disputed areas is to hold the amendments in its law to expand the participation of the nationalities Turkmen, Syriac, Chaldean, Assyrian, and even to ensure the participation of Arab brothers to become original part of the citizens in the Region of Kurdistan. "

"In the moment there are 13 different political blocs in the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region representing different political parties, national and religious in the region  some of them joined the Kurdistan Alliance and some others joined the opposition parties, including those who work independently," He said, stressing that " The political and security unrest the disputed areas in Diayala, Salahuddin, Nineveh witnessed highlighted the importance of these areas to join the Kurdistan Region. "

He stressed, "The first thing to be done by Kurdistan Parliament is to hold the amendments in its laws to expand the participation of the nationalities Turkmen, Syriac, Chaldean, Assyrian ad  Arabs to form original parts of the citizens in the Region of Kurdistan," adding that "this would be a great achievement to get out of the current problems plaguing this areas. "

Faily believes that "The public opinion of Kurdistan and the parliament is ready to represent the Arabs in parliament within the areas which will join the Region in which citizens become authentically from the people of the region," adding that "this openness and the approach is located in the heart of the principles which leadership of Kurdistan Parliament and the people of Kurdistan believe in."

He noted to "the spirit of coexistence and acceptance of others, which touches all the aspects of the situation in the Kurdistan region," stressing that "This is a message of reassurance to all non-Kurds inhabitants of the disputed areas, and the basic standards to deal with all the people of the Region are justice, equality and citizenship within a democratic system and the original values of the Iraqi people with all of its components. "