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US Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte
visits Iraqi Kurdistan
19.6.2007
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June
19, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- US Deputy
Secretary of State John Negroponte, Ambassador
Daniel Speckhard, Director of Strategic Governance
and Economic Effects at the US Embassy in Baghdad
and Director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management
Office, and Mr David Satterfield, senior advisor on
Iraq to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on
Thursday and Friday, June 16, visited Erbil for
meetings with officials of the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG).
Deputy Secretary Negroponte conveyed President
Bush's commitment to the democratic political
process in Iraq and
thanked the KRG for the positive role it is playing
in resolving current difficulties.
KRG President Massoud Barzani thanked President Bush
and the people of the US for their brave and
continuing sacrifice, and spoke fondly of the
special relationship between the two sides.
President Barzani further pledged that the KRG would
continue to play an instrumental role in all areas
of the Iraqi political process. |
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte |
Deputy Secretary Negroponte also met with Prime
Minister Nechirvan Barzani, Deputy Prime Minister
Omer Fattah, and other KRG officials. The Prime
Minister thanked the US for its efforts in Iraq. He
emphasised the need for stronger determination at
the federal level to solve problems and the
importance of a continued US presence to help
stabilise the political environment.
In wide-ranging talks, the KRG and US Government
officials also discussed the political situation in
Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq and the role KRG is
playing; the progress of the Baghdad security plan;
amendments to the Iraqi constitution; and
negotiations regarding the revenue sharing law.
Throughout the meetings the KRG expressed its
willingness to continue working towards improving
the situation in the rest of Iraq, and its desire to
maintain peaceful and friendly relations with all
fellow Iraqi's, as well as neighbouring countries.
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