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US, Iraq, agree to tackle Kurdish rebel
issue
26.7.2006
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WASHINGTON, July
25, -- The United States and Iraq have agreed to
"more aggressively" tackle the issue of Kurdish
rebels striking at Turkey from bases inside Iraq, US
national security adviser Stephen Hadley said
Tuesday.
"We have already identified some steps that can be
taken and that the Iraqis are going to take, which
they will, I'm sure, be announcing," he said after
US President George W. Bush met here with Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
US officials fear that any Turkish raid on the
separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- branded
a terrorist group in Ankara and Washington -- would
upset the relatively calm northern area of war-torn
Iraq.
Hadley said that he and aides to Iraqi Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki, here for talks with US
President George W. Bush, discussed the issue "at
length" and agreed to set up a three-way "framework"
with Turkey to deal with the matter.
"We recognize the seriousness of the problem, that
Turkish citizens and Turkish security forces are
dying as a result of the activities of the PKK," he
said. "We have proposed that it be addressed in this
trilateral context, I think the Turks are
comfortable with that."
"And there have to be concrete steps that we can
take to show both Iraqis and Turks that there is a
plan to deal with that problem, and that it is
something that we have to address more
aggressively," said Hadley.
Bush made those assurances to Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and now "we've got to deliver,"
said Hadley.
AFP
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