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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
18.1.2007 |
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January 18, 2007 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq)
Baghdad approves opening of Russian Consulates in
Erbil and Basra
A telegram from the Iraqi Federal Government Foreign
Ministry forwarded to the Russian Foreign Ministry
advised Moscow of Baghdad's approval regarding the
opening of two Russian consulates in Iraq.
Two Russian consulates are to be opened in Iraq: one
in the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil in the
north, and the other in the south in Basra,
according to Abdul Kareem Hashim, the Iraqi
ambassador to Moscow who announced the telegram to
Russian deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Soultanove.
The move by the Iraqi government is to further
develop its friendly relations with the Russian
government.
Gas electricity project in Erbil
A privately owned electricity station in Erbil is
working on a project to generate electricity from
gas with the use of modern machinery, local media
reported last week.
The station's machine parts are currently imported
from outside of the region. The project is due to
produce electricity next August.
Implemented by NANAKALI, the project is to cost $300
million and will have the capacity to produce 500
megawatts of electricity, according to Dilawar
Tahir, who supervises the project.
KRG Minister: No Peshmarga to go to Baghdad
A predominantly Kurdish battalion in Iraqi Army
started moving to Baghdad where its members will
undergo military training before taking part in a
major security plan that aims to pacify the Iraqi
capital.
Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Region
for Peshmarga Affairs, Jafar Sheikh Mustafa, told
the local media last week that the 3rd Division from
the 4th Battalion of the Iraqi New Army stationed in
Kurdistan Region would go to Baghdad to take part in
the new central government security plan in and
around Baghdad.
The Minister said there was no relation between the
soldiers going to Baghdad with the troops of
Kurdistan Peshmarga Forces, and that no troop from
Kurdistan Peshmarga Forces is to be deployed in
Baghdad. Kurdistan Region Deputy Commander of Chief,
Mustafa Said Qadir, also confirmed the statements by
the Minister, adding that Kurdistan Peshmarga Forces
are completely different from the Iraqi New Army
units stationed in the north.
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