The situation before the conference:
On July 17, 1994, the Kurdistan Students Union received official licensing from the Ministry of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government. According to the recommendations of the Eighth Congress, the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union was supposed to be held in 1995, but three years passed since that date.
There were several reasons for the delay of the conference, the most important of which was the involvement of Kurdistan Democratic Party In a series of civil wars of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in May 1994. As a result, most of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Students Union were looted and its members faced arrest and intimidation.
Despite the unequal circumstances, between 1993 and 1998, the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union held nine expanded meetings to organize its ranks and manage student affairs. At the final meeting, the ninth, held on April 17, 1998, it was decided to convene the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union. A preparatory committee for the Congress was formed, and by May 20, 1998, elections were held to select delegates to the Congress in all branches of the Union.
Conference Management:
After all the preparations made by the preparatory committee, the ninth conference of the Kurdistan Students Union was held on Wednesday, July 27, 1998, with the attendance of 260 delegates, under the slogan (Knowledge, Freedom, Empowerment), in the presence of the president. Masoud BarzaniIn the Cultural Hall in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
On Wednesday, July 29, 1998, the conference delegates voted for the new executive committee members. For the first time in the history of the Kurdistan Students Union,Kurdistan Democratic PartyA women's quota was introduced for their appointment to the executive committee, and four of them benefited from the women's quota.
The Executive Committee was elected at the conference as follows:
1- Issa Ahmed Agha
2- Ali Awni Nemat
3- Shaaban Shaaban Ahmed
4- Shaker Abu Bakr Aziz
5- Awaz Abdulwahid Khader
6- Ghaleb Hussein Othman
7- Ahmed Mohamed Omar
8- Ali Tatar Tawfiq
9- Musa Ahmad Agha
10- Hazar Kaku Ahmed
11- Hankaw Abdullah Khan
12- Shamiran Ali Muhammad
13- Zubair Abdullah Hussein
14- Fakher Hussein Sadiq
15- Mohamed Shukri Mohamed Saeed
16- Karwan Jalal Ali
17- Salam Hussein Mohammed
18- Samira Nader Qader
19- Statement by Othman Hassan
Reserve members:
1- Nazim Rashid Ismail
2- Sirwan Othman Hassan
3- Musleh Hassan Mirkhan
4- Murad Khoshwi Hussein
5- Shaylan Jaafar Ali, known as Shaylan Sheikh Jaafar.
On August 12, 1998, the Executive Committee, at its first meeting, elected Ali Awni as Secretary and the members of the Secretariat Office as follows:
1- Shaker Abu Bakr Aziz
2- Henkaw Abdullah
3- Shaban Shaban
4- Awaz Abdulwahid
5- Karwan Jalal Ali
6- Issa Ahmed Agha
During this period, the Kurdistan Students Union had eight branches: Salahaddin University, Raparin, Erbil, Sulaimaniyah, Duhok-Nineveh (Duhok University branch was established in July 1998), Soran, and Akre.
Sources and footnotes:
1- Sasan Aouni, “Kurdistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Technology and Technology”, (Holler-Chapkhani Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 1998), no. 214.
2- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Kangaroo and Kanafani Kani Qutabiani of Kurdistan, Chapi, (Hawler-Chapakhani) ڕۆژهەڵات-2012), no. 128.
3- Sasan Awni, Sirjawi Bishu, LL. 190-270.
4- Irfan Aziz, Sirjawi Bishoo, no. 129.
5- In the name of Aamada Bouni Saharik Barzani, the name of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, Qutabyan, Ejergani Yehikit Qutabyani Kurdistan, March 31, Khawla Siyyham, H.H., July 20, 1998, no. 1.
6- The Ninth Conference of the Kurdistan Students Union concluded with the election of a new leadership. (Khabat Newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified, Issue 885, Friday, July 31, 1998, p. 1).
7- Election of the members of the new executive committee of the Kurdistan Students Union, Khabat newspaper, mouthpiece of the Unified Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue No. 886, Friday, August 7, 1998, p. 3, by Kahshiki Demokratiananda. This is the language of the Indian language, which is the most important thing in the world. Ejergani Yehkit Qutabiani Kurdistan, 31st Street, Kholi Sayyim, Huller, 20th July 1998, L4.
8- Karwan Kadani, previous source, p. 25.
9- Irfan Aziz, Sirjawi Bishoo, LL. 137-145.
