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People living in
Kurdistan, Iraq's Kurdish region have been satisfied
with status quo, an official of the Kurdish regional
government said.
"We have solved our problem in Iraq through
federalism and the rest of the Kurds in the
neighboring countries have to solve their own
problems to enjoy security and peace," Interior
Minister of the Kurdish regional government Karim
Senjari said.
However, he admitted that an independent Kurdish
state is still a "dream for all Kurds, just like the
unity of Arab countries is a dream for all Arabs."
The Kurdish official's comment came as Iraqi
political leaders are struggling to form a new Iraqi
government after last December parliamentary
elections.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who is also a
Kurdish, told the media earlier that the dream of an
independent Kurdish state is not possible for now
and is not on the agenda.
"We have to be realistic. We have to look at
achievable and real goals of the people," Talabani
said.
Asserting that reconstruction of Iraq shall be
supported and practical goals shall be adopted
instead, Talabani said that the best thing for Kurds
is a democratic, parliamentarian, federative, and
diverse Iraq.
Asked about the infiltration of members of the Labor
Party of Kurdistan, which is a Kurdish radical party
also called the Kurdish Workers' Party in southern
Turkey, to the Kurdish enclave, Senjari said, "We
will not let any rebel to infiltrate to this area,
but welcome those who come as visitors."
The "Kurdistan" northern Kurdish autonomous region
has been split between two main parties, the Kurdish
Democratic Party (KDP) led by now Kurdistan's
President Massud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK) headed by Talabani.
Barzani last week called on leaders of the two
parties to form a single government for the
autonomous region in Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
Xinhua
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