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Iraqi Kurdistan to send delegation to Iran
to discuss border closure
2.10.2007
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October
2, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',--
Spokesman for Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
Jamal Abdullah said on Monday that the KRG will send
a high-ranking delegation this week to negotiate the
border closure issue with Iran.
“A high-ranking Iraqi Kurdistan delegation will
discuss the border closure issue with the Iranian
officials to convince them cancel their shelling of
border areas and to negotiate about the crisis,”
Abdullah told AFP.
On September 24,
Iran
closed its
border with Iraq's Kurdistan region in protest at
the arrest of an Iranian by the US military.
"All five entry points on the border between Iran
and Kurdistan region have been closed by the Iranian
authorities" said Jamal Abdallah,
spokesman for the Kurdish Regional Government..
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman
Mohammed Ali Al Husseini refused to link between the
decision to close Iranian borders with Kurdistan
region and the arrest of Iranian citizen in
Sulaimaniyah by US Forces on September 20.
All economic and trade relations with the Iraqi
Kurdistan have been cut, an Iranian official in the
border province of Kermanshah
said on Sept 26.
In the note, they have underlined their economic,
social, and cultural ties with Iran, Abdullah added.
Iranian forces continuously
shelling
Kurdish PEJAK guerrilla positions in Iraqi Kurdistan
border areas. Thousand of Iraqi Kurds left the
border area with Iran.
PEJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) , Since
2004 PEJAK took up arms for self-rule in the
country's mainly Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran. Half the members of PEJAK are women.
AFP | Agencies
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