The President of the Republic, Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, stressed the importance of completing the procedures for converting the city of Halabja from a district to a governorate.
“The city of Halabja is a symbol of standing up to the tyranny of the former regime, and its people have been subjected to successive massacres, and convoys of martyrs have been presented,” the President said in a letter sent to Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi, according to a presidential statement.
The President of the Republic also stressed, “the need to include a draft law converting the city of Halabja into a governorate on the agenda of the House of Representatives to vote on it in preparation for the ratification, issuance and publication of the law in the Official Gazette, especially after completing the legal procedures for that, and the Ministry of Planning completing the procedures for converting it into a governorate.”/ End
Source: National Iraqi News Agency