Concluding Statement of
The Exceptional Conference of Kurdistan National Congress

Kurdistan National Congress-KNC Tel: 0044 208 563 2881, Fax: 0044 208 563 8406 www.knc.org.uk e-mail: wka@knc.org.uk

Concluding Statement of
The Exceptional Conference of Kurdistan National Congress
The UK Branch
Held on 24/8/2002 from 10 am to 17 pm, under the following slogans:
"Independence for Kurdistan"
"Killing one Kurdish person is as unacceptable as killing all the Kurds"
"Self knowledge is the basis of all knowledge"
"Faithful Kurds should spread national consciousness among Kurds"

The management committee of the conference was formed as follows: Mr Shirwan, Mrs Homa, Mrs Irmgard, Mrs Nazaleen, Mr Asso, Mr Amanj, Mr Azad, Mr Peshang, Mr Ayad, and Mr Farhad.

The conference was opened by the national hymn "Ai Raqib" and officially declared open by Cllr Ghassan Karian, Mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham in London. In his speech, Cllr Karian thanked the KNC for inviting him and declared his support to the rights of Kurdish people for self determination. He also mentioned several times the name of Mr Jawad Mella, President of the KNC as the person who explains the Kurdish cause to him. Then letters and faxes were read from personalities and organisations that could not be present at the conference, such as: Mr Toni Blair the Prime Minister, Mr Neil Kinnock deputy president of the European Union, Dr Carlo Boldarini president of Kurdistan and Italy Cultural Association, Major General Kamal Mustafa, the British writer David Adamson, the British writer David McDowell, Baroness Cox member of House of Lords, Lord Hylton member of House of Lords, Ann Clwyd, government minister and MP, the Kurdish poet Ahmad Hardi, Miss Badria Najmadeen, Engineer Muhammad Barzi, Dr Marif Arshad, Sheikh Omar Gharib Kurdish writer, Mr Hussein Maronsi, Mr Sirwan Karwani, Mr Sirwan Kavose, Mr Hashim Karimi, member of the leadership committee of Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran, Professor Dr Khalil Rashidian from Durham University, Mr Mustafa Khalil, director of the Kurdish Radio in Australia, and all committees of the KNC in Kurdistan and abroad, and the leadership committee of the KNC in Southern Kurdistan send a congratulation telegram and their project to establish the leadership committee for Southern Kurdistan.

Then Mr Jawad Mella, president of the KNC and Mr Bruska Ibrahim, head of Foreign Affairs Committee of the KNC presented their speeches.
After a break, the great Kurdish thinker and founder of the philosophy of Kurdayeti professor Dr Jemal Nebez started his seminar, in which he put the light on the situation in Kurdistan after the great uprising of 1991 up till now, and concentrated on the possibility of an American attack against Iraq. He also discussed the stand of different parties in Kurdistan and the regimes occupying Kurdistan. In other parts of his seminar, he mentioned the women rights and escalation of terrorism.
Then there was a participation in discussion from all participants which took place in a free and democratic atmosphere.

Then Mr Jawad Mella, the president of the KNC presented a thanking and gratitude certificate to the founder of Kurdayeti professor Jemal Nebez on behalf of the KNC.
Then representatives of parties and organisations of Kurdistan presented their speeches such as: Mr Abbas Rostam representative of the Kurdistan Communist Party, Miss Bayan Saleh, representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Mr Muhammad Qaradaghi, representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mr Ahmad Shafiq Agha Chalabi, representative of the Iraqi National Congress, Dr Aza Jamal Abdullah, president of the Kurdish Physicians Association, Mr Sherko Zenaloush, Secretary of the Western Kurdistan Association, the Arabic thinker Dr Abdulhussein Shaban, Dr Rebuar Fatah, director of the internet site "Kurdish Media", Mr Dilan Roshani, director of the internet site "Kurdistan Web", Mr Omar Salih Beg, Mr Abdulqadir Dabbaghi, member of the leadership committee of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan - Iran and one of the former participants of the Kurdistan Republic of 1946, Mr Haji Hama Nuri, Mrs Najia Abdullah, professor Jamal Jalal Abdullah, Dr Hamid Sarraj, Mr Shallaw, Mr Jalal Kurdi, professor Tariq Pasha Amedi, Mr Sabir Kokayi, and Mr Azad Muhammad.

More than 130 members and supporters of the KNC participated in this conference among whom: Dr Sami Khafaf, Mr Kamal Sheikh Gharib, Mrs Luiza, Mr Kamal Sabri Beg and his family, Dr Abdulrazaq Nimatullah, Mr Jamil Kiki and his family, Mr Ghaiath Ahmad, Mr Anwar Wenagir, Mrs Razia Khan, Mrs Jamila Khan, Mr Kamal Najmadeen, Mr Kamiran Salih Beg, Mr Hawre Hassan, Mr Shamal Selah, Mr Sulaiman Osman, Mr Samir Faili, president of the Faili Kurds Association in the UK, Mr Hadi Umed, Mr Amran Sultan, Mr Kurmanj Aziz Akrayi, Mr. Kawa, Mrs Lalah and many others.
The conference decided the following:

1- Form a committee to follow up the question of establishing the government of Kurdistan in exile. The committee will contact the organisations and personalities in Kurdistan and give them further time to discuss the necessity of forming a government of Kurdistan in exile, and invite them to participate in the fifth congress, which will be dedicated to announcing the Kurdish government in exile, covering all regions of Kurdistan, capable of representing all the Kurdish nation (40 million people) in the international institutions, as a nation that has the right for independence. Or, at least, that committee should convince those personalities and organisations - those with hindering relations - not to oppose i.e. if they are not capable of assisting a Kurdish government, not to hinder it.

2- Improving the areas of media information, foreign relations in the UK, and youth, women, physicians, intellectuals, artists' organisations, as well as the Kurdish worldwide internet.

Recommendations of the conference:

1- The conference asks all organisations of Kurdistan, wherever they are, to solve their conflicts in a peaceful way through dialogue and avoid internal violence. The two governments in Kurdistan should unite as soon as possible and use the Halabja catastrophe and the genocide against the Kurds to liberate the Kurds and Kurdistan. It should be indicated that the Turkish state at the moment is the main enemy of the Kurds.

2- The conference asks the parties in Southern Kurdistan to carry out free elections in more democratic circumstances (such as abolishing the 7 % ratio rule, so that as many political sides as possible could participate in political decisions), and to give the right of voting to the Kurds in exile. And to use the same election cards to a referendum to establish whether the Kurds in Southern Kurdistan want to stay as part of Iraq or form their own independent state.

3- The conference asks to take advantage of the recent Washington agreement and new developments in the area and the world to establish peace and security, and asks to enforce and improve the agreement to achieve the independence for Kurdistan, by asking the US government to allow using the airports in Kurdistan to intensify direct relations with the world without the need to ask neighbouring countries any favours, and to protect the Kurdish people from any attack by the occupiers, especially a chemical attack.
The conference thanked all personalities and organisations that participated in the success of the meeting or sent letters and messages, especially, Cllr Ghassan Karian, the Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham.
London 25 / 8 / 2002