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Support for new platoons of Iraqi
Kurdistan Peshmerga forces to boost Iraqi security
9.10.2007
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October
9, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', --
Iraq's minister for defence Abd al-Qadir al-Ubaydi
has discussed the creation of two new platoons of
Kurdish forces or Peshmergas with the Kurdistan
regional government in a bid to boost Iraqi
security.
The Iraqi defence minister met the Kurdistani
minister for Peshmergas to discuss the plan,
according to the website of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan.
The ministers were joined by a delegation that
included the head of the Iraqi army Babakr Zebari
and the head of the multinational forces, Michael
Barbero, and local officials responsible for local
electricity distribution networks.
The website said the parties were considering the
details for the creation of two new military
platoons and the transformation of old Peshmerga
forces in regional patrols, as sanctioned under the
constitution.
The site stressed that the parties had decided in
their agreement to nominate representatives among
them, who would carry out their decisions in a bid
to build military cooperation.
In the Iraqi army, there are three Kurdish
battalions in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. In
the last few years they have been stationed in
various parts of Iraq including Baghdad, Mosul and
Kirkuk, to promote security and protect petrol
plants and electricity networks.
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