Kirkuk (NINA)- The Chaldean Patriarch in Iraq and the world Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako confirmed: “The Chaldeans in the Kurdistan region are subject to exclusion and inequality, although they represent the largest percentage of the Christian component.”
Sako said in a letter to the presidency, government and parliament of the Kurdistan region and the Kurdistan Democratic Party: “The Chaldeans in the Kurdistan region face inequality and exclusion in representation, although their number exceeds 85% of the region’s Christians, not to mention their large numbers all over the world, as their presence and representation constitutes a sign distinguished and distinctive.
He added: “One specific influential Christian political party controls the capabilities and fate of Christians in the region and excludes others, and this in itself contradicts the idea of diversity of cultural and intellectual backgrounds, because the integration of all components takes away the creativity and giving of each of them.”
Sako stressed: “The Chaldeans have the right to demand their legitimate rights and their political and parliamentary entitlements by all available peaceful means and methods, and I will be with them in the forefront, since the issue is not only political, but rather a historical entitlement.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency