This is the letter I sent to Anna Eshoo, Congresswoman for the 14th district, in regards to the proposed legislation she would have put forward to House of Representatives in early January 2007. However, this bill did not make it to the House due to strong campaigning by the members of the KDP:

Dear Congresswoman Eshoo, My name is Emil Soleyman and I am an Assyrian American from San Jose. It has been recently communicated that you were considering a proposed congressional resolution regarding the formation of an administrative area for Assyrians and other minorities. In response to this effort, Mr. Fawzi Hariri, a senior Assyrian member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the appointed Minister of Industry in Baghdad, and Mr. Praidoon Darmo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) met with you to discuss this issue on January 17. The result of the meeting was the temporary shelving of a critical congressional resolution that would support the creation of an administrative area for Assyrians and other minorities in northern Iraq.

Read the entire letter!