Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mary Glindon (Labour), on Wednesday, 17 October 2018, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 20 members in total.

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THE POSITION OF KURDS IN IRAQ

That this House expresses its relief that relations between the Kurds in Iraq and the federal Government in Baghdad appear to be improving after the failed attempt to blockade and dissolve the Kurdistan Regional Government following its people's overwhelming support for the principle of negotiated independence in a referendum in September 2017; accepts that the process of forming a new Government has yet to be finalised but that the leading contender, Adel Abdul Mahdi, is a more emollient figure who fought alongside the Peshmerga against Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and resigned on principle when his plans for a sustainable deal between Erbil and Baghdad on oil and gas was rejected by the then Iraqi Prime Minister; hopes that he, the Kurds and others can implement the federal constitution that protects the rights of the Kurds which, if it had been done from its acceptance in an Iraqi referendum in 2005, would have forestalled a vote on independence; and wishes all well in finally moving towards a fully federal Iraq with a strong Kurdistan Regional Government.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1719 

Session

2017-19

Other sponsors

Bob Blackman

Mike Penning

Robert Halfon

Jim Shannon

Hannah Bardell

Subjects

Iraq Ethnic groups Politics and government

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk