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Barzani calls for a Federal Democratic Parliamentary State in Iraq.
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Talabani
Lauds the UN Coordinator Myat’s Role
Kurdistan Newsline June 24, 2002 The Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani met with Tun Myat, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, who is ending his duty in that capacity. Mr. Talabani warmly commended the dedication and efforts of Mr. Myat to make the United Nations Security Council Resolution 986 (Oil-for-Food-Program) more efficient and effective for the benefit of the people of Kurdistan region and Iraq as a whole. Mr. Myat thanked Mr. Talabani and Kurdistan regional administration and staff for wholeheartedly supporting the implementation process of the United Nations projects in the regions. Mr. Myat expressed his fond memories of his experiences with the officials and people of the region. Mr. Talabani wished Mr. Myat well in his new career assignment as the new UN Security Coordinator. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed, May 31, Ramiro Armando de Oliveira Lopes da Silva of Portugal as the new United Nation Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq. Mr. Lopes da Silva has over 15 years of UN experience. He joined the UN system in 1985 and worked most recently as Director of the Transport and Logistics Division at the World Food Program (WFP) headquarters in Rome. During his career, Mr. Lopes da Silva has dealt with several complex humanitarian emergencies, including serving as the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Angola from 1996 to 1998 and as WFP’s Special Envoy for the recent crisis in Afghanistan. The Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq is an integral part of the Office of the Iraq Program, which oversees the UN's humanitarian Oil-for-Food scheme for Iraq. Iraqi Aircraft Violates Kurdistan No-Fly Zone In
the first recorded violation, since 1992, of northern No-Fly Zone, imposed
by the U.S. and British Governments on the Iraqi regime after the Gulf
War, an Iraqi military fighter jet flew directly over the air space of
the city of Kifri in a deliberate act of provocation and harassment of
the city’s population. The Iraqi plane, flying low over the city of Kifri,
broke the sound barrier and exited the area in the direction of Tuz Khormatu.
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