The committee consists of the first deputy secretary general Kosrat Rasoul and senior officials Arasalan Baiz and Befel Talabani.

PUK and KDP are expected to meet on Sunday, May 9, to settle the issue of Kirkuk governorship and the PUK’s participation in the swearing-in ceremony of the Kurdistan Region’s president-elect Nechirvan Barzani, an anonymous source told NRT.

Babakr Sadiq (Kakarash Sadiq), the member of Kirkuk Provincial Council Ahmad Asakari, the deputy head of PUK Center in Kirkuk Rawand Mala Mahmoud, and the former police director in Kirkuk Jamal Tahir, and the assistant president of the University of Kirkuk Omar Einja have been selected to be given to the KDP in order to choose one of them for the Kirkuk governorship.

According to the report the PUK is not ready to add other names.

The president-elect Nechirvan Barzani is supposed to swear in on Monday, June 10, as the new Kurdistan Region president in Erbil city.

A great number of the Kurdtan, Iraqi and foreign representatives and political parties will attend the ceremony.

The Kurdistan Parliament elected Nechirvan Barzani as new president of the Kurdistan Region with 68 out of 81 votes on Tuesday May, 28.

The PUK boycotted the vote.

“The Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP] has not stepped up to implement our agreements with it. The KDP always makes obstacles for the nomination of a governor from the PUK [in Kirkuk, as we have agreed on],” the party said in a statement at the time.

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