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Turkey and Jordan warn against Iraq's
partition
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AMMAN, November
25, -- Iraq's neighbours, Turkey and Jordan, warned
on Saturday that the partition of the country would
take the sectarian bloodshed to new levels and
plunge the whole region into chaos.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his
Jordanian counterpart Marouf Bakheet told reporters
at the end of talks in Amman that the partition of
Iraq was unacceptable.
"We cannot accept the partition of Iraq and the
partition of Iraq into three parts will increase the
intensity of the civil war..." Erdogan said.
Ankara fears that the sectarian violence could rip
Iraq apart and is anxious about the advent of a
Kurdistan state in northern Iraq which could fan
separatism among its own Kurds.
Erdogan said he would discuss the situation in Iraq
with U.S. President George W. Bush at the NATO
summit in
Riga next week, adding that Bush's crisis talks
later in the week in Amman with Iraqi Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki
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"We attach a lot of importance on the talks in
Amman," he said.
Sectarian violence has surged since the February
bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine. Maliki's
six-month old government has struggled to contain
the bloodshed despite a major crackdown in the
capital and a series of national reconciliation
initiatives.
Jordan's Bakheet warned the partition of Iraq would
have far-reaching consequences on the region's
stability.
"The partition of Iraq means a slide to the abyss.
Its flames will reach everyone, not just Iraqis and
it will have a dangerous impact on the stability of
the region and especially Iraq's neighbours," he
said.
Reuters
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