President Barzani: Kurdistan elected constitutional legality and democratically Going forward.

President Massoud Barzani received a delegation from the European Union, led by Ms Jana Skova, EU envoy to Iraq and  combining  ambassadors and representatives of a number of EU countries to Iraq

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At the beginning of the meeting, Ms Skova expressed gratitude to President

Barzani for the opportunity to meet with him. She also stressed the importance

of the strategic relations between the EU, Iraq, and Kurdistan. Ms Skova

congratulated president Barzani for the success of the electoral process that

took place in Kurdistan and conducted democratically, and praised the democratic

experience in Kurdistan as a new model in the Middle East, referring to European

embassies' representatives experts that have visited many areas of Iraqi

Kurdistan during the elections and the active participation and competition

Board of admiration.

President Barzani, welcomed the delegation and welcomed the positive impressions

European countries regarding the elections, saying that the success of this

process increases the morale of the people of Kurdistan.

President Barzani noted, that during the mass meeting in 1991, which took place

in the town of Koi Sanjaq,

said that Kurdistan, since then, has implemented democracy, and has gone from

revolutionary legitimacy to constitutional legitimacy, by way of election,

despite all the shortcomings, Kurdistan elected constitutional legality and is

democratically going forward.

During the meeting, which was specially held to talk about the political

situation in Iraq, President Barzani focused on the participation of the EU, the

role of the Kurds and the national partnership in the future of Iraq, and about

the understanding of the problems.

President Barzani referred to the First World War when Iraq was established on

the basis of partnership between the two main nations, the Kurdish and the Arab

nationalities, but the partnership did not apply.

Barzani said after the liberation of Iraq, the Kurds decided to remain within

Iraq, which has been the ratification of the Constitution, and hoped that all

duties and rights on the basis of partnership and coexistence, but unfortunately

there disagreements regarding the Constitution.

During the meeting, President Barzani focused on the elections that were held on

April 30, where he confirmed that these elections are the last chance for Iraq

to implement the partnership.

On the question of calling Kurdistan to participate in the next Government in

Iraq, President Barzani stated that a partnership must be demonstrated and the

Constitution must be applied so that all Iraqis feel they are participants in

the political process. President Barzani also stated that the Iraqi army should

be established on a national basis and the problems of the Peshmerga movement,

must be solved. As well as the ratification of the law of oil and gas, the

general census, and to solve all the major problems that occur within

institutions established outside the Constitution.

Regarding the Kurdish demands for a Kurd regaining the Presidential position of

Iraq, President Barzani said, despite this honorific position, it will be best

to wait until after the official results of the election have been declared and

to see which post is better, while it will be preferable to have the Presidency

post  and consider it a national entitlement to Kurdistan.

During the meeting, they also discussed the future and the role of the Kurdish

political process in Iraq, as well as the Syrian refugees inhabited in

Kurdistan.