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Official meetings between Iraqi and
Kurdistan PMs to start on Saturday
15.12.2007
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December
15, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- MP from the Kurdistan Coalition
(KC) Mahmoud Othman said on Friday that the official
meetings between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
and his Kurdistani counterpart Nechirvan Barzani
will start on Saturday in Baghdad.
"Meetings Barzani held with al-Maliki and President
Jalal Talabani were unofficial consultative
meetings," Othman said.
"Saturday's meeting will be official and will tackle
article 140 of the Iraqi constitution as well as oil
contracts signed by Iraq's Kurdistan region and 2008
general budget," he also said.
Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution relates to the
normalization of the situation Kirkuk,www.ekurd.net
an important and mixed
city of majority Kurds and minority of Christians,
Arabs and Turkmen.
Kurds seek to include the city in the autonomous
Iraq's Kurdistan region, while Sunni Arabs, Turkmen,
and Shiite Arabs oppose the incorporation.
Kirkuk city is a Kurdish city and it lies just south
border of the Kurdistan autonomous region. |
Nechirvan Barzani (L), Prime
Minister of
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),
Iraqi Prime minister Jawad Nuri al-Maliki |
"There is a real desire to reach to an agreement
between the two sides," the MP asserted.
The Kurdistani premier arrived in Baghdad on Monday
in a visit to resolve all pending problems between
the two sides, mainly the oil contracts the
Kurdistan region signed with some foreign companies
and the recent controversy over the region's budget,www.ekurd.net
according to the
spokesman for the Kurdistan region.
The Iraqi government had criticized contracts the
Kurdish government signed with a number of foreign
companies for oil drilling, considering them as
illegal.
A disagreement also erupted while discussing the
2008 budget, in which 17% of the total is dedicated
to Kurdistan government.
VOI
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