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de la Prensa-Basm Ozeti
own expense, it supported the program with the services of thousands of government
staff (teachers, health workers, electricity staff, water and sanitation workers).
Furthermore, it also provided warehousing and other building facilities,
telecommunication, transport, and security services to UN agencies.
The ICRC has always had access to all the prisons in the region, and freedom of
expression and freedom of the media are now better guaranteed by law. In Iraqi
Kurdistan, there are women teachers,judges and government ministers, which signifies
the rights, role, and importance ofwomen in Kurdish civil society.
SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS
Therefore, the Government of Iraqi Kurdistan would be grateful if you will consider
adopting the following amendments to the mention for a resolution contained within
Emma Nicholson's report:
Introduction of new paragraphs
champions the will oflraqi Kurdistan to live in a democratic and federal Iraqi
Republic;
takes note of the progress realised in respect ofhuman rights and
democratisation; and encourages Iraqi Kurdistan to pursue the democratisation
process it has initiated in the last 10 years;
encourages the people of Iraqi Kurdistan to form, according to the Washington
agreement, a unified administration which will have to organize new general
elctions;
calls the Iraqi government to recognize the national and democratic rights of the
Kurds oflraq within a federal and democratic Iraq.
"OIL FOR FOOn"
PROGRAMM
Modification of paragraph Il
notes, however, that the "oil for food" program has been effective only in Iraqi
Kurdistan, where it has been managed by the United Nations directly and
supported lYy thefuli and whole cooperation qifered lYy the Iraqi Kurdistan
Administration;
Introduction of new paragraph
clarifies that the revision of the current system of sanctions should accompany
measures intended to protect and foster democratic progress realised in Iraqi
Kurdistan;
stresses therefore that the substantial amounts of unspent 986 funds should not
be forfeited when the program comes to an end;
insists on the need to include permanent arrangements for the 15% share oflraqi
revenues for the Kurdistan Region in a post "oil for food" program environment,
and recognises that those incomes are indispensable to the administration of
Kurdistan to pursue the progress realised in the field of human rights and
democratisation;
urges that those measures must be guaranteed by an agreement at the
internationallevel.
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