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Iraq's Kurds support relations with
Israel, Massoud Barzani
8.6.2005
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BAGHDAD -- The
president of Iraq's Kurdistan province, Massoud
Barzani, says he has no objection to establishing
diplomatic relations with Israel.
"Establishing relations between the Kurds and Israel
is not a crime since many Arab countries have ties
with the Jewish state," Barzani said in an interview
with the Saudi daily al-Hayat. |
Kurdistan Leader : Massoud Barzani |
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He said when the time comes and an Israeli Embassy
is opened in Baghdad he will ask that an Israeli
consulate be also established in Erbil, the capital
of Iraq's Kurdistan.
Barzani, who heads the powerful Kurdistan Democratic
Party, said the disputed oil center of Kirkuk in
northern Iraq is part of Kurdistan and should be
returned to the province, as it was cut out from it
by the former Baath regime.
He described rampant terrorism in Iraq as "a
dangerous illness, which should have been treated
radically right from the beginning, while now we
fear it has become chronic."
United Press International
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