Kurdistan Regional Government (Iraq)

Last modified: 2005-08-06 by joe mcmillan
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by Ivan Sache

• Status of the Flag
• Official Description of the Flag
• Origin of the Regional Government
• Variant of the Flag

See also:

• Political Parties in Iraqi Kurdistan
• Mahabad Republic
• Short-lived Independent States in Kurdistan
• Kurdish Parliament in Exile
• Index of Iraq Pages

Status of the flag

Erbil, 10 June 1999
In its ordinary session today, the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government - KRG discussed a law proposal concerning raising Kurdistan flag over government buildings in the Kurdish region along side the Iraqi flag. The Kurdistan flag comprises of three horizontally arranged colours red, white and green with a yellow sun in the centre. The proposed law will be presented soon to the Kurdistan Regional Parliament for approval. Also at the meeting, the Council of Ministers put forward a proposal to create four more governorates in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The proposed governorates are Halabja, Soran, Rania and Akra.
Rezhan, 17 June 1999

Official Description of the Flag

Editor's note:: The following information is reproduced from the former website of the Center for Kurdish Political Studies [no longer on-line] with kind permission of its director, Bijan Eliasi.

Introduction

The aim of this document is to introduce in brief the history of the cu