Prime Minister calls on Kirkuk Council to hold first session next Thursday

Baghdad – WAA
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani called on the winning members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council to hold the first session of the council next Thursday.
Al-Sudani said in a post on the (X) platform, which was followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “after the federal government succeeded in organizing local elections for the governorates, including Kirkuk Governorate, which has not held these elections since 2005, political dialogues were held under our auspices, and for more than one round, between the forces that won the seats of the governorate council, and others through a committee formed for this purpose. The dialogues resulted in an agreement to form a Kirkuk administration coalition to include the winning forces, and also resulted in a paper for the political agreement that included the basic principles, a political axis and another administrative axis, in addition to the cultural and economic.”
He added, “In the context of implementing what was agreed upon in the last dialogue session, we call on the members who won membership in the Kirkuk Provincial Council to hold the first session of the Council, headed by the oldest member, next Thursday, corresponding to July 11, 2024, at exactly one o’clock in the afternoon in the Provincial Council building.”
He continued: “We also call on the concerned political forces to cooperate in completing the implementation of what was agreed upon in the political dialogues, and to complete these dialogues in the coming days.”

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