Leading Kurdish MP calls for dialogue to settle differences among Kurdish Parties:

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature from north Iraq’s Kurdistan Coalition, Mahmoud Othman, has called on different Kurdish ruling and opposition parties to settle their differences through dialogue and to keep away from tension, in order to treat the problems, according to a statement issued by his office on Wednesday The sudden statement, issued by the (opposition) Goran (Change) Movement, calling to dissolve the (Kurdistan) Parliament and government and to link the situation in Kurdistan with what happened in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries, had created strong and broad reactions by the Presidency of Kurdistan, its Parliament, government, parties and other forces, thing that created tension, anxiety and fear among citizens,” the statement, copy of which landed in IraqiNews.com news agency said The Kurdish opposition Goran (Change)  Movement had issued a statement on 29/1/2011, demanding to dissolve Kurdistan Region’s government and parliament, and to carry out political, administrative reforms, as well as the treatment of the corruption problem. All this necessitates leaning to dialogue inside the Parliament and among parties, government and opposition, on the level of leaderships and decision-makers, and to keep away from using the mass media, the street and all what complicates the situation and undermines our experience and serves the forces that are lurging us and don’t wish us succes,” Othman said Noteworthy is that 19 parties and political movements in Kurdistan had rejected, in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Kurdistan Region’s President, Massoud Barzani, last Sunday, the call of the Goran Movement to dissolve the Region’s government and parliament, stressing that any attempt to acheive reform and change must take within the framework of “political and legal legistimacy,” as well as rejecting any effort that “will undermine the security situation and the peaceful coexistence among the Kurdistan people’s components The Kurdistan Parties meeting and their rejection of Goran Movements demands, took place after one day from the date of the Movement’s statement, led by the former leader, who spllit from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi President, Massoud Barzani, Nowserwan Mustapha, demanding to dissolve the Region’s government and parliament, and to prepare the astmospheres for “free elections within a period not exceeding three months, and to return the properties, used by both ruling parties and government officials (to their owners), the withdrawal of the Region’s constitution and laws, and to raise them to the next parliament The Goran (Change) Movement possesses 25 seats in Kurdistan Region’s 111-seat Parlilament, leading the opposition in the parliament, whilst it possesses 8 ouf of the Iraqi Parliament’s 325-seats, being the only parliamentary bloc that does not have any representation in the current Iraqi government IT / SKH 155