Executive Council Program

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Kurdistan Parliament in Exile
Executive Council Program

     In Kurdistan today, our people are resisting a policy of
annihilation. For years, this resistance to foreign invaders has
been a reality for the Kurds. This struggle is for freedom, for
national identity, and for a life of human dignity.
     The colonialist states have subjected the Kurdish people to a
policy of violence, forcing millions of Kurds to flee their homes.
Today, if Kurds are living in exile, it is because of the campaign
of terror and massacres.
     Because of our struggle for freedom and liberation, the need
has arisen for the formation of this Parliament of Kurdistan in
Exile. Our people, by investing their authority in our parliament,
have spoken their will. The Parliament of Kurdistan in Exile is
faced with the issue of resolving the democratic aspirations of our
people with the task of gaining international status for our people
and with the responsibility of undertaking the duty of representing
them in the world at large.
     The Executive Council of the Parliament of Kurdistan in Exile,
considering the dire conditions that our people find themselves in,
taking authority from the resolution of its daily session of April
14, 1995, wishes to make public the following program as its
mission to bring a solution to the problem of our people:

1. It will support the Chair of the Parliament of Kurdistan in
Exile to ensure that this body becomes an institution to carry out
its assigned tasks.

2. It will undertake tasks for the eventual goal of establishing a
national congress and a national parliament in a free Kurdistan.

3. Guided by the principle of self-determination for the Kurds, it
will enter into voluntary agreements with neighbouring peoples.

4. It will support and strengthen the national liberation struggle
to end the foreign occupation of Kurdistan.

5. It will undertake programs to safeguard the political, cultural,
and social rights of the Kurds.

6. Taking the principle of national interest as a guideline, it
will conduct the needed diplomatic and political work.

7. It will work to implement the rules of war that relate to the
Geneva Conventions of 1949 and those of 1977 to bring about a
mutual cease-fire.

8. It will undertake work to bring about a determination of the
status of the Kurds.

9. It will take the question of Kurdistan to the United Nations, to
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the
European Council, the European Parliament, and other international
institutions to secure observer status for the Kurds.

10. It will open offices in appropriate places to represent the
parliament.

11. It will endeavour to reveal at international forums the terror
and abuse inflicted on the Kurds by the colonialist countries.

12. It will undertake work to make it feasible for the members of
the international community to initiate a military, economic, and
political embargo on the Turkish state.

13. It will concern itself with the political, social, cultural,
and economic welfare of the Kurds who live in exile.

14. It will work to bring about, notwithstanding the obstacles, the
union of all the political parties, organizations, institutions,
and influential personalities to ensure national cohesion. It will
work to put an end to the fratricidal war that is going on between
the Kurdish parties in the south with the eventual aim of putting
an end to national discord.

15. For Kurdistan, it will prepare the following draft resolutions:
     a. Constitution
     b. Citizenship laws
     c. Conscription laws
     d. Civil laws
     e. Tax laws
     f. Penal laws, enforcement laws, and laws pertaining to the
criminal courts
     g. Environmental Resources Protection Act

16. It will work to put an end to the oppression suffered by women.
It will take measures to help free women and to ensure that they
have the right to network in every field of the national struggle.

17. It will help mend the feelings of distrust that have been
implanted by the colonialists among the peoples of Kurdistan.
Assyrians (Keldians and Suryanis) need to be noted here by name.

18. Taking the freedom of belief as a pillar, this council will
work towards ending the animosities that exist among various
religious groups. A society in which tolerance is respected will be
its aim.

19. It will undertake to improve the Kurdish language. It will
enable the people to learn Kurdish.

20. It will lay the foundations for a national library.

21. It will ensure that national institutions undertake projects to
honour the Kurdish writer Ahmede Xani.

22. It will tackle the question of Kurdish people's education. It
will take the necessary steps for the establishment of schools,
including universities.

23. It will undertake work to establish national institutions in
the fields of theatre, music, folklore, cinema, and the arts.

24. It will undertake to persuade the Kurdish youth not to serve in
enemy armies; it will urge them to do that in the Kurdish national
army.

25. It will concern itself with the educational, social, cultural,
and sporting needs of the Kurdish youth.

26. It will endeavour itself with the concerns of the youth in
order to put an end to their alienation. It will strive to make
youth the bedrock of Kurdish society.

27. It will endeavour to establish a national press office.

28. It will endeavour itself with the task of easing the return of
Kurdish people to Kurdistan.

29. It will endeavour itself with the task of educating the Kurdish
people through meetings, conferences, seminars, and panels.

30. With the help of our people, our national institutions, and our
friends, it will form a budget for the needs of the parliament.

31. It will endeavour itself with the aim of protecting the natural
riches of Kurdistan and see to it that these resources are used for
the happiness and liberation of our people.

32. It will endeavour itself with the task of investing in our
people with the aim of cultivating talented individuals.

33. It will endeavour itself with the task of building friendships
with other peoples. It will also establish close links with the
democratic public in Turkey.

34. The Executive Council derives its authority from the memory of
the martyrs. It considers loyalty to the memory of those who have
fallen in the line of duty as the primary reason for its own
existence.

35. This council will endeavour itself with the concerns of the
veterans of the liberation war, with the families of the martyrs
and those of imprisoned Kurdish activists, with the welfare of the
Kurdish fighters who are now in jail, and with the concerns of our
people who have been suffering as a result of the war.

This program was adopted during the first parliamentary daily
session of April 16, 1995.

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