March
13, 2007
RIYADH, -- The president of the autonomous
Kurdistan region in (northern Iraq), Massud Barzani,
arrived on Monday in the Saudi capital, the official
news agency SPA reported.
Barzani will hold talks with Saudi officials during
a visit of "a few days" to the oil-rich kingdom, his
spokesman Fuad Hussein told AFP. The visit was at
the invitation of Saudi King Abdullah.
"During the visit president Barzani will discuss
bilateral relations with the kingdom, besides the
security and political situation in Iraq," he said.
Iraq on February 14 reopened its embassy in Riyadh,
which had been shut since December 1990, shortly
before US-led allied forces drove the Iraqi
occupying army out of neighbouring Kuwait.
Iraq's Kurdistan has had an autonomous status since
Iraq's defeat in the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait. |
Massoud Barzani, the President of the Regional
Government of Kurdistan |
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