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

social, cultural, scientific and political personalities of
Kurdistan to participate in the fifth conference which
will be dedicated especially to discussions regarding the
forming of a Kurdish government and its institutions.
The general announcement issued by the conference
contains three types of participation: open participation,
non-open participation or a third choice for those who
cannot, due to their present circumstances, have any form
of participation: by asking them not to blockade the road
to forming a Kurdish government in exile. This
government is not a substitute to the regional Kurdistan
government and parliaments existing here and there. It
is but a complementary to them, and all the regional
organizations should take their place inside the KNC and
the Kurdistan government in exile, which would be for
the whole Kurdish people and the whole Kurdistan region.
The Kurdistan government in exile is the executive
authority of the KNC and has the same aim of the KNC,
i.e. to establish a Kurdish state on the whole land of our
homeland Kurdistan. The international official
recognition would come with time if the world finds us
united behind our demands seriously and persistently.
In this regard the fourth conference of the KNC has
received congratulation letters from several politicians
of the world for its holding, the first of whom was Mr.
Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of Britain. This has more
significance than that the world is expecting from us to
have a national orientation and act as a people of a
population of more than 40 million and to practice our
normal right in freedom and independence. Indeed the
congratulation of the British government for holding the
fourth conference of the KNC has a positive significance
on the way to an official international recognition. Not
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