Barzani calls Baghdad to convert Halabja to a province

, and to inform the region with all the procedures in this topic .

The official website of the Presidency of Kurdistan Region said in a brief statement that the President of the Region demanded in a letter addressed to the Council of Ministers of Iraq, " to provide the region with all information regarding the procedures followed in order to raise the administrative level of Halabja city to a province and inform them of the last results that Baghdad has reached in this regard.

Barzani stressed in his message on the position of the region in support "to make Halabja as a province in Iraq and in the region ," noting “ at the same time to provide all the services and compensation for the victims of the chemical bombardment that had taken place on the city. "

The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki , had announced in his recent visit to Erbil that his government " supports the demand of Kurdistan Region to raise the administrative level of Halabja city to a province and that it is obliged to compensate the city and compensate the wounded and the families of the victims financially and morally . "

The Council of Ministers in Kurdistan announced in the fourth of last June in principle , transferring Halabja city to a province , while noting that it is awaiting for the approval of Baghdad , according to the Iraqi constitution .

Halabja city affiliated to Sulaimaniyah province is located on the borders with Iran and Kurdistan city , it had been bombed with chemical weapons used by the former regime against its population in the sixteenth of March 1988 caused the deaths of five thousand inhabitants and injured about 20 thousand.