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Delegation Iraqi Kurdistan to head to Iran
7.12.2007
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December
7, 2007
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', -- The
Secretary General of Kurdistan Toilers' party said
on Friday that a highly commissioned delegation
representing a number of Kurdistan parties supreme
Council is to leave Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan's
capital, on Friday for the Iranian capital Tehran to
discuss bolstering the relations between Iraq's
Kurdistan region and Iran .
The delegation from the Kurdistan parties supreme
Council to travel from Erbil International Airport
to the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday
"A highly commissioned delegation of Kurdish parties
is to head into Teheran in a step to bolster the
political and economic ties between the Kurdistan
region and Iran", Qadir Aziz said.
Aziz added the delegation members "are representing
the two key Kurdish parties (the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party), the
Kurdistan Islamic Union party, the Islamic League,
the Communist party, Kurdistan Toilers' party and
Kurdistan Socialist party."
The ties between Iraq's Kurdistan region and Iran
saw tension after U.S. forces detained an Iranian
accused of having links with the Iranian Al-Quds
Corps in Sulaimaniyah last September.www.ekurd.net
The Iranians denied the
accusation describing the detainee as a civil
servant, from the Iranian province of Kirmanshah,
who was on an official visit in Sulaimaniyah in an
official business delegation.
The Iranian authorities closed off all the border
crossings with Kurdistan region in the wake of the
detention for weeks, sending up the prices of many
Iranian imports.
VOI
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