Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

of a massive audience from the representatives of Kurdish
and foreign organisations. The Congress received several
supporting letters from international political personalities
such as Boutros Boutros Ghali the general secretary of
the UN (third Congress) and Mr Tony Blair, head of the
British government (fourth Congress). The Congress
adopted the Kurdistan National Pact. The KNC holds
regular contacts with all parts of Kurdistan in addition to
international contacts in order to explain the national
cause of Kurdistan. One of such was the visit of a
delegation of the KNC to the Libyan Jamahiriya on 20-
29/1/1997 and meeting the leader of the Arabic revolution
brother Moamar Al-Qaddafi by an official invitation.
Brother Moamar showed a kind of understanding of the
Kurdish cause unprecedented by the Kurdish people. He
is the only head of state in the world calling for a Kurdish
state since a quarter of a century. When the Kurdish
delegation introduced the Kurdistan flag as a present to
the leader of the Arabic revolution, he stood to his feet
as a sign of respect to the flag of Kurdistan, then he hold
a side of it examining it warmly and then folded it and
kissed it, then put it on his head. These were wonderful
religious moments for Kurdistan in the presence of the
hero of Africa and the East Colonel Moamar Al-Qaddafi
that could not be described by any language.
The fourth Kurdistan National Congress held on 10-11
October 1998 in London was a great quality leap as the
first cornerstone was set on the path of a Kurdish state in
the presence of a massive audience from the
representatives of friendly Kurdish and foreign
organisations. The congress discussed the project of
constitution, amended and agreed it. A committee was
formed to follow up the question of forming a Kurdistan
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