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The Baloch National question can not be taken as bits and pieces. The
Baloch nation must be recognized within its boundaries as a people
distinct from others, equal in collective rights and duties. In the new
millennium a new scenario of national governance should prevail. The
attributes of the new system of governance should be harmonious
partnership in a republican liberal democratic system with a federal
structure and national autonomous provincial governing mechanisms. This
may appropriately address the problem and offer prospects of a pleasant
new partnership of trust and coexistence. A mechanism based on the
acceptance of genuine demands of the constituent nations should generate
participation, share responsibilities, and offer opportunities to all
nations providing a foundation for stronger, civilized, prosperous and
proud peoples in a multinational state with a new vision and a civilized
image.
Balochistan People’s Party is a Liberal Democratic Party. It struggles to
achieve the Baloch people’s sovereignty within the federal Democratic
Republic in Iran. It has formulated a federal democratic framework which
envisages a system based on parity of constituent parts. In which
constituents borders within Iran will be redrawn according to the
language, history and people’s wishes. The new republics will have equal
rights in all spheres of power.
According to the parties program, the
relationship between a republic and the federal government must include
five basic principles:
1. National sovereignty: Principal authority rests with the republic, with
the federal government having exclusive authority in ‘foreign affairs’,
‘defense’, ‘international financial relationships and financial
relationships between republics within Iran’ and ‘communication. The
republics will retain power and sovereignty over the remaining state
departments.
2. Democracy: Parliamentarian democracy should be enforced in all levels
of power, both at the federal and republic level.
3. Participation: National republics will have equal participation in all
government bodies: the legislative, executive and judicial branches. For
equal participation, the population and geographic size of the republic
would not be taken into consideration.
4. Distribution of Power: Both the federal government and the republics
should have written Constitutions, and unambiguous laws, regulations and
memorandum that both in federal and republics level divides power
horizontally between legislative, executive and judicial branches; and
vertically divides power between federal and national republics
governments.
5. Financial autonomy: To guarantee financial autonomy, tax collection
power should be divided between the federal government and the national
republics in a way that makes the national republics financially
autonomous of federal government.
A permanent appropriate and lasting solution should be in line with
internationally recognized principles of the right to self-determination
and sovereign equality of nations. The federal government shall
incorporate republics in its decision procedure on some constitutionally
entrenched basis.
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