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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Kirkuk</title>
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		<title>Will yet another electoral term in 2014 lead to any real change on Kirkuk and article 140?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/11/will-yet-another-electoral-term-in-2014-lead-to-any-real-change-on-kirkuk-and-article-140/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kirkuk has been at the historic forefront of the Kurdish nationalist struggle. It has been an area of contention for decades and formed a red-line for Kurdish negotiations with Baathist regime long before the liberation of Iraq in 2003. Resolution of Kirkuk and disputed territories was a firm Kurdish condition since 2003, enshrined even [&#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>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/12/just-how-disputed-are-disputed-territories-in-iraq-time-to-let-a-full-nationwide-census-doing-the-talking/#comments</comments>
		<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>Leaving the fate of Kirkuk to fuzzy democracy while Maliki taunts the Kurds</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/05/leaving-the-fate-of-kirkuk-to-fuzzy-democracy-while-maliki-taunts-the-kurds/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/05/leaving-the-fate-of-kirkuk-to-fuzzy-democracy-while-maliki-taunts-the-kurds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[article 140]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq has been gripped by a grave political crisis for several months and there appears little intent on the part of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik’s government to sooth tensions by working towards national reconciliation and resorting to constitutional principles. Maliki spearheaded an Iraqi Council of Ministers meeting this week in the Kirkuk province, which [&#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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		<category><![CDATA[Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disputed Territories]]></category>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bashdar.co.uk/?p=240</guid>
		<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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		<title>Battle for Kirkuk Continues</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2008/08/battle-for-kirkuk-continues/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2008/08/battle-for-kirkuk-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bashdar.co.uk/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi Mindset is, as long as there is no democracy in Kirkuk, there is no chance of a Kurdish cictory After years of foot-dragging by Baghdad over the status of Kirkuk, Kurds have decided to dig their heels in. The heated-battle for Kirkuk continues apace with decisive concord out of sight. Iraqi leaders, after [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Did the UN Really Stop the Clock?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2008/06/did-the-un-really-stop-the-clock/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2008/06/did-the-un-really-stop-the-clock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2007, as the deadline for the implementation of article 140 of the Iraqi constitution unsurprisingly passed, UN special envoy to Iraq Staffan de Mistura claimed: &#8220;&#8230;the question of Kikruk was a ticking time bomb. The United Nations has stopped the clock&#8221;. In reality however, the UN never stopped the clock, they only added [&#8230;]]]></description>
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