Kirkuk

...threatened boycotts, Iraqi legislators ended three days of ground-breaking negotiations in Baghdad on the future of the disputed city of Kirkuk with an agreement yesterday to keep talking in coming months, a Boston-based mediator said.

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...election law was approved on November 8 after weeks of wrangling between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen over how to hold the vote in the city of Kirkuk, which they dispute. U.S. diplomats and U.N. officials lobbied energetically for passage of the...

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...the violence in Kirkuk A conference is being held in Iraq examining how NI peace principles might be applied to the city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi oil fields and is an ethnically mixed city populated by Kurds,...

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...over the past 18 months but attacks remain common in volatile areas like the oil city of Kirkuk, the northern city of Mosul and in Baghdad. Kirkuk is one of several flashpoints between Iraq's Arab-led government in Baghdad and minority...

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Violence has dipped sharply in Iraq over the past 18 months but attacks remain common in volatile areas like the oil city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is one of several flashpoints between Iraq's Arab-led government in Baghdad and minority Kurds...

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The vote had been delayed for weeks over the apparently parochial issue of electoral lists for the contested northern city of Kirkuk. Oil-rich Kirkuk, claimed by Iraq's Kurds as an integral part of their autonomous semistate but administered...

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...over who is allowed to authorise oil deals in Kurdistan, and Kurdish officials also say they must be involved in any deals in Kirkuk. Kirkuk, with 8.5 billion barrels of reserves and another northern field, Bai Hassan, which holds 2.29...

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