ARMENIAN ELECTED TO KURDISTAN PARLIAMENT

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
31.07.2009 11:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An Armenian was elected to the parliament of
Kurdistan.

Aram Shahin Bakoyan, a member of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
led by Masoud Barzani, will have a mandate in the 111-seat parliament.

Chairman of the central national administration of Iraq, Paruyr
Hakopian said all Armenian candidates are Kurdish-speaking. "Aram
Shahin is a native of Artsruk. He used to fight in Barzani’s guerilla
units," he said, kurdistan.ru reports.