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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Disputed Territories</title>
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		<title>Kurdistan to Maliki &#8211; your last (last) chance?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/06/kurdistan-to-maliki-your-last-last-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki landed in Erbil to chair a rare but symbolic meeting of the Iraqi cabinet in the Kurdish capital and discuss a number of issues with the Kurdish leadership, expectations appeared high. However, Maliki has shown political shrewdness when backed against a corner in the past, making concessions, striking agreements, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how disputed are “disputed territories” in Iraq? Time to let a full nationwide census doing the talking</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/12/just-how-disputed-are-disputed-territories-in-iraq-time-to-let-a-full-nationwide-census-doing-the-talking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the already tenuous relations between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region reached new heights in recent weeks. As the Peshmerga and Iraqi army forces became deeply entrenched, respective positions hardened and the drums of war beat more loudly, the fear of a brutal war became a real possibility with the firing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kurdish hand in creating the Maliki monster</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/12/the-kurdish-hand-in-creating-the-maliki-monster/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/12/the-kurdish-hand-in-creating-the-maliki-monster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[artcile 140]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurds rubber stamped two Maliki terms of power while Maliki has frequently reneged on agreements and sidelined Kurdish demands. After 6 years in power and frequent accusation of centralist tendencies, is the current situation a surprise? A sharp escalation in the already tenuous relations between the Erbil and Baghdad after a deadly skirmish in Tuz [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Iraqis stand up and be counted &#8211; enough of foot-dragging over the census</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/12/let-iraqis-stand-up-and-be-counted-enough-of-foot-dragging-over-the-census/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/12/let-iraqis-stand-up-and-be-counted-enough-of-foot-dragging-over-the-census/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most countries, the conducting of a national census would be a logical and straightforward periodic exercise that provides governments with key data pertinent to its citizens, facilitating affective socio-economic planning, improved delivery of public services, forecasting of future growth and generally providing a better understanding of the very people they are elected to serve. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>With the numbers game so prevalent in Iraq, the national census will rock the political horizon</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/09/with-the-numbers-game-so-prevalent-in-iraq-the-national-census-will-rock-the-political-horizon/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/09/with-the-numbers-game-so-prevalent-in-iraq-the-national-census-will-rock-the-political-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming national census due to be held on 24th October 2010 holds additional significance for an Iraq that almost seven months after the staging of national elections has still failed to form a new government. The importance of this elusive and milestone national census, the first across all of Iraq since 1987, can not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Dindar Zebari (KRG Special rep. to UN)</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2009/08/interview-with-dindar-zebari-krg-special-rep-to-un/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2009/08/interview-with-dindar-zebari-krg-special-rep-to-un/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In your opinion, is the United Nations in a position to resolve a complicated internal dispute such as Kirkuk? Let me first take this angle on the subject, the UN involvement in finding a resolution on the so-called disputed areas is based on a UN Resolution 1770 and after after 2008, 1880. These two resolutions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Kirkuk deadlock?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2009/07/breaking-the-kirkuk-deadlock/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2009/07/breaking-the-kirkuk-deadlock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the current issues in Iraq, the dispute over the oil-rich Kirkuk region could go a long way in deciding future fortunes of the &#8220;new&#8221; Iraq. Kirkuk was a persistent thorn in the side of the Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad for many decades and the new Iraq after the downfall of Saddam Hussein has [&#8230;]]]></description>
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