October
17, 2007
PARIS, -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, on
a visit to Paris, urged Turkey Wednesday not to send
troops across the Iraqi border in pursuit of PKK
separatist fighters.
He also called on the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party)
to stop its "military activities".
"We hope that the wisdom of our friend (Turkish
prime minister Recep Tayyip) Erdohan would be so
active that there will be no military intervention,"
he said after meeting President Nicolas Sarkozy and
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
"We, the Iraqi government, are ready to cooperate
with the Turkish authorities to reach an agreement
and we are fully activating the committee formed by
Turkey, Iraq and America to sort out this problem.
"We are asking the PKK to stop fighting and to end
so-called military activities. Otherwise we are
asking them to leave our country and go anywhere
because the regional government and the Kurdish
people will not tolerate (it)," he said. |
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) greets Iraq's
President Jalal Talabani in the courtyard of Elysee
Palace ahead of a meeting in Paris October 17, 2007 |
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