After holding the sixth Congress, one of the decisions of the Congress was that the Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union should be held every year. In light of this decision, after one year had passed, work was done to hold a new Congress, and on the dateof March 30 to April 2, 1972, the seventh Congressof theKurdistan StudentsUnion, with the slogan (Science and struggle for the sake of consolidating autonomy forKurdistan of Iraq), with the attendanceof 450 representatives ofseven branches, ina free atmosphere in the meeting hallsof the University of Sulaymaniyah, was organized1. In this Congress, each ofTaha Abdulkarim, a member of the leadership of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the Minister of State were present. The representative of thePresident of the Republic of Iraq delivered the speech of the
President of the Republic2. In addition to these, Ali Abdullah, the Governor of Sulaymaniyah,Sami Abdulrahman,the Minister of Northern Affairs and representative of President Mustafa Barzani, Bianko, the representative of the Union of Student Organizations of Romania, and Engineer Tariq Akrayi,the president of theSociety of Kurdish Students inEurope, participated as guests in this Congress3.The first day of the Congress was dedicated to reading the speeches of the attendees and holding the opening ceremony of the Congress. For the second day, the preparatory committee of the Congress was designated, and in the following days, the Congress officially began its work. The most important decisions of the Congress were: establishing the General Administrative Council in place of the Executive Committee and opening branches of the Council throughout Iraq. Increasing the literacy centers. Moving the Kurdish department of the College of Arts of the University of Baghdad to a college of its own. Assisting students from other parts of Kurdistan. Strengthening the relationship with the mass organizations of students of the world and reaffirming the support of the Students Union for the revolution and President Mustafa Barzani4.In this Congress, therank of deputy president was removedand inthe end, thesecretariat was electedthe thethethethethethethe the thethethethethethethethethethethethethe thethe
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thethethe the thethetheTheywererepresentativeswho were electedasfollows: 1-Adil Murad- President
2- Ranj Nuri Shawais- Secretary
3- Azad Muhammad Kha
faf- MemberoftheSecretariatBureau4- Chia Abbas- Memberof
theSecretariatBureau5- Yusuf Mawlud Qasab- Member
oftheSecretariatBureau6- Azad Muhammad Najib- Member
oftheSecretariatBureau7- Muhammad Qarani Qa
radaghi- MemberoftheSecretariatBureau8- Osman Salih Khoshnaw- MemberoftheSecretariatBureau
9- Jalal Salim Khoshnaw- MemberoftheSecretariat
Bureau10-......Secretariat Bureau
10- Hussein Shingali- Member of the Secretariat Bureau
11- Najmaddin Omar Karim- Member of the Secretariat Bureau
The members of the Secretariat Bureau were elected as follows:
1- Khosraw Gul Muhammad
2- Aziz Mahmoud
3- Sirwan Abdullah
4- Najmaddin Aziz
5- Jabbar Sabir5.
According to the internal program, the organizational structure of the Kurdistan Students Union consisted of cells, school committees, university and institute committees, district committees, branch committees, the executive bureau, the Secretariat:
Bureau, and the General Secretary6. Sources and footnotes 1- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congress and Conferences of the Kurdistan Students Union, First Edition, (Erbil-Rojhalat Printing House-2012), p. 74.2- Speech of the President of the Republic at the Conference of the Kurdistan Students Union of Iraq, Al-Ta'akhi Newspaper, Issue 997, Baghdad, Al-Times Printing House, Saturday, April 1, 1972 AD, p. 1.3- Sasan Awni, Kurdistan Students Union: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Erbil- Ministry of Education Printing House- 1998), p. 42.4- Irfan Aziz Aziz, previous source, pp. 74-75.
5- Sasan Awni, previous source, p. 57; Irfan Aziz Aziz, previous source, p. 77.
6- The Program and Internal Regulations, Kurdistan Students Union - Iraq, Seventh Conference, (no location - 1972 AD), pp. 1 - 21.