The Kirkuk Vision 2024-2028 initiative aims to make
The Kirkuk Vision 2024-2028 initiative aims to make Kirkuk a model of coexistence and prosperity. Led by the Iraqi Turkmen community in Iraq, it addresses urgent challenges, promotes inclusivity, and outlines plans for governance, economic growth, and social harmony. Through collaboration and shared responsibility, it seeks to ensure equitable development and stability, emphasizing key areas such as security, land disputes, and cultural preservation. Ultimately, the initiative aims to foster a thriving, inclusive Kirkuk, setting a precedent for progress and unity in the Iraq and the region.
The Turkmen component in Kirkuk province, on the 10th of January 2024, announced the launch of the “Kirkuk Vision 2024-2028” initiative under the slogan “Kirkuk as a Model for Coexistence, Partnership, and Cultural Diversity” for development opportunities and prospects for prosperity.
The Unified Iraqi Turkmen Front block stated in a distributed statement that “out of national responsibility and in view of the urgent challenges facing Iraq and the region, and to meet the needs of Kirkuk citizens, the Turkmen component in Kirkuk province announced the launch of the (Kirkuk Vision 2024-2028) initiative under the slogan ‘Kirkuk as a Model for Coexistence, Partnership, and Cultural Diversity… Development opportunities and prospects for prosperity’.”
It added: “The people of Kirkuk deserve to enjoy security, peace, and a prosperous future for all, according to promising future visions that provide fair solutions to the problems facing the province through decisions and procedures adopted by the ‘Kirkuk Vision 2024-2028’ initiative,” indicating that “this initiative seeks to address the political, administrative, security, and social situations and provide a decent life for all citizens of the province, including Turkmen, Kurds, Arabs, and Christians without discrimination, achieve social peace, preserve the social fabric, and provide services deserved by the province’s citizens in accordance with the constitution and the law.”
It clarified that “the ‘Kirkuk Vision’ initiative adopts a realistic plan that considers the constitution and the Law/directions of the federal government through ministerial approaches via implementable mechanisms, including a series of measures to correct the administrative path, enhance the economic and service reality, address existing problems, and achieve a real renaissance towards a bright future for the province’s residents, ensuring that Kirkuk becomes a model for good governance and at the forefront of supportive cities contributing to partnership, dialogue, development, and stability, as well as becoming attractive for investment and tourism due to its diversity in culture and folk heritage.”
The statement continued: “The ‘Kirkuk Vision’ initiative includes a strategic vision and a government program based on implementing the plan from the beginning of forming the local government according to priorities and taking into account urgent challenges, mobilizing available resources and Kirkuk competencies in state institutions to provide the best services to citizens in all sensitive and important sectors affecting the daily lives of citizens, under the direct supervision of the Prime Minister, (and facilitation by the United Nations Mission in Iraq) and the participation of political forces, state administration alliance, social, tribal, civil society activities, media, experts, competencies, and elites.”
It emphasized: “Because we believe that the ‘Kirkuk Vision’ initiative is the pivot in which the local government carries out its executive role, commits to its duties, and implements its provisions, representing the fundamental criterion for evaluating its performance, the responsibility for the success of the local government is a shared responsibility that includes all active forces, by strengthening the values of citizenship, partnership, and coexistence among the province’s components.”
It pointed out that “the ‘Kirkuk Vision’ initiative presents a summary overview of the main axes that constitute the general framework of the local government in Kirkuk and can be considered a comprehensive national vision and a public policy aimed at achieving a sustainable reality for the dignified living of the province’s residents, enhancing social cohesion and recovering from past negatives with a new participatory vision, where everyone bears their national responsibilities towards Kirkuk residents, according to the main axes below:
First: The Axis of Power Sharing (Implementing Joint Administration)
Second: Security and Military Axis
Third: Agricultural Land Axis (Property Disputes)
Fourth: Economic and Investment Axis (Services, Projects, Health, Agriculture, Industry)
Fifth: Energy, Oil, Land and Air Transportation Axis
Sixth: Culture, Tourism, Coexistence, and Civil Peace Axis.”
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