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Massoud Barzani: President Bush assured
Iraqi Kurds
28.12.2006 |
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December 28, 2006
Iraqi Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani has
said that he sent a letter to U.S. President George
W. Bush in which he listed his concerns over the
findings of a Dec. 6 report by the Iraq Study Group
(ISG), led by former Secretary of State James Baker
and former lawmaker Lee Hamilton.
In the letter, he expressed his concerns that the
benefits of Iraqi people in general – particularly
the benefits of Iraqi Kurds -- were not taken into
consideration in the report, Barzani said, during
his Tuesday address at the regional Kurdistan
parliament in the city of Erbil, the capital of
Kurdistan region, reported the Dogan News Agency.
Barzani noted that upon receiving the letter, Bush
called him and that they had a telephone
conversation.
Bush assured him that Iraqi Kurds' demands would not
be neglected and that the final call over
implementing recommendations made in the report
belonged to him, Barzani explained. |
Massoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan
Region in Iraq |
Mottaki, Barzani slam Turkey for ‘Istanbul
Conference':
Meanwhile both Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr
Mottaki and Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud
Barzani have harshly criticized Turkey for hosting
the “Istanbul Conference” of the Iraqi Sunnis, held
on Dec. 13 and 14, while the Turkish capital
continues downplaying such reactions.
Tehran has notified Ankara of its concerns over the
hosting of the conference, said Mottaki, reported
the NTV news channel on Wednesday. “All kinds of
attempts aiming at destroying the Sunni -Shiite
unity will eventually be defeated,” Mottaki was
quoted as saying; while he also emphasized that
regional countries should more sensitively evaluate
developments concerning Iraq.
Earlier, Barzani also slammed Turkey for the
conference in Istanbul without openly giving
Turkey's name in his remarks. “Some countries'
invitations extended to individuals and groups who
create violence in Iraq, and the fact that these
countries offer new perspectives on particularly
Kirkuk and other issues lead to further escalation
of violence. We are worried of the real intentions
of some countries in the region,” Barzani was quoted
as saying on Tuesday in Erbil.
The conference in Istanbul at the time sparked harsh
reaction by Iraqi Shiite
and Kurdish politicians, with many condemning
the conference for exacerbating the sectarian
divide. The Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) Badr Organization head
Hadi al-Amiri, said he found it unthinkable for a
conference to convene under the pretense of
supporting the Iraqi people
while only inviting Sunnis, while Iraqi President
and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said that Turkey's
actions were strange: “On the one hand, [Turkey
allows] the inflamers of a sectarian war to hold a
congress and, on the other hand, it wants the
regional Kurdish government to fight the PKK.”
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