C. Recognition and publication of official documents and correspondence in
the two languages;
D. Opening schools that teach the two languages, in accordance with the
educational guidelines;
E. Use of both languages in any matter enjoined by the principle of equality
such as bank notes, passports, and stamps.
Third: The federal and official institutions and agencies in the Kurdistan region
shall use both languages.
Fourth: The Turkomen language and the Syriac language are two other official
languages in the administrative units in which they constitute density of
population.
Fifth: Each region or governorate may adopt any other local language as an
additional official language if the majority of its population so decides in a
general referendum.
Article 5:
The law is sovereign. The people are the source of authority and legitimacy, which they
shall exercise in a direct, general, secret ballot and through their constitutional
institutions.
Article 6:
Transfer of authority shall be made peacefully through democratic means as stipulated in
this Constitution.
Article 7:
First: Any entity or program that adopts, incites, facilitates, glorifies, promotes, or
justifies racism or terrorism or accusations of being an infidel (takfir) or ethnic
cleansing, especially the Saddamist Ba’ath in Iraq and its symbols, under any
name whatsoever, shall be prohibited. Such entities may not be part of political
pluralism in Iraq. This shall be regulated by law.
Second: The State shall undertake to combat terrorism in all its forms, and shall
work to protect its territories from being a base, pathway, or field for terrorist
activities.
Article 8: