UN suggest power-sharing for Kerkuk

March 30, 2009

AP Exclusive: UN suggests power-sharing for Kerkuk



Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a power-sharing system of government for Iraq’s deeply divided region of Kerkuk in the oil-rich north.
A draft U.N. plan, outlined to The Associated Press by two Western officials, aims to defuse dangerous tensions.