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| | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan |
 | | Placing itself within the mainstream of the world's social democratic movement, the PUK believes that a combination of free market forces and government policy is necessary to promote balanced economic and social development and welfare. |
 | | The PUK advocates a federal and democratic Iraqi state in which the Kurds, and other ethnic/cultural communities, will be able to develop their economy, their culture and their society. |
 | | PUK's major political objectives are: to assure a democratic system and freedom of thought, freedom of ideology, freedom of journalism and press, freedom of commuting and residency, freedom to establish political organizations, syndicates, professional associations, unions of farmers, women, teachers, youth, artists, writers and athletic clubs, and freedom of protest and strikes. |
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