The Federal Government has not fulfilled the promises it has made to the Iraqi people in general and to the Kurdistan Region and the Kurdish political leadership in particular.
The Kurdistan Region enjoys good relations with neighbouring and other countries in the region, and we will continue developing these relations on the basis of mutual respect and bilateral interests. Our relations with Arab and World countries have also developed considerably. Many countries have expressed their readiness to establish good relations with the Kurdistan Region, and we will continue our efforts to build friendly relations with all the countries of the world.
A constitution is the most important political and social contract of every country and nation
Everyone respects it. Over the past two years, there has been lots of talk about the constitution of the Kurdistan Region. Questions have been raised about the future of the Kurdistan Region, and what its structure and constitutional position will look like.
Our draft constitution contains a lot of good articles and resolutions, and it was approved by the previous session of parliament, but we believe that this constitution needs to be reviewed by all political parties, legislators, experts, social and religious components of our society so that we will have a constitution that brings all the people of Kurdistan together and which will develop a system for the future of our people. And, because this will be the first constitution of Kurdistan, it should be put up for referendum and the people should be able to freely choose to either vote for it or not. And, a proper timeline should be established to achieve this goal.
Devolving some powers
Additionally, we will try to unify the institutions within the Kurdistan Regional Government as soon as possible in order to make this government the government of every individual in the Kurdistan Region because, after 21 years, we still see that power is in the upper part of the government pyramid. This has been an unexpected result of old philosophies, but we see that centralisation is not always positive and it creates gaps between the government and the people.
Accordingly, our first tasks will include devolving some of the powers and authorities and allocating more budgets to provincial, district and sub-district councils. At that time people will feel closer to the government and feel that they can join with the government in helping to make decisions.
Over the next few days I will try to meet with the heads of the parliamentary blocs to discuss this process and the drafting of a bill that will devolve power to the provinces and lower administrative units with them. No province should feel ignored in helping to make this a government for all of the people.
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