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Jalal Talabani: Turkish PM to visit Iraq
soon
30.5.2008
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May
30, 2008
BAGHDAD, — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
said that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan will pay a visit to Iraq soon to enhance
bilateral ties.
During a meeting in his office with heads of Iraqi
media organizations on Thursday, Talabani reviewed
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economic and political
issues in Iraq in addition to his country's
relations with neighboring countries, Talabani's
office said in a statement obtained by Xinhua on
Friday.
He said that the Turkish premier will make a
landmark visit to Iraq soon for talks with Iraqi
leaders, without specifying the date of the visit.
"The Prime Ministers of the two countries have been
leading joint committees tasked with expanding trade
exchange between Iraq and Turkey to five billion
U.S. dollars, 20 percent higher than its current
level," Talabani said. |
Iraqi President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd |
Erdogan's expected visit
would be the first for a high-level Turkish official
since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled
former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Talabani said that Turkey approved financing two
pipelines to transport Iraqi oil and gas produced
from Iraq's northern oil fields to Turkey's ports.
Early in March, Talabani paid a visit to Turkey and
met his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and Prime
Minister Erdogan.
The visit came one week after the Turkish troops
launched an offensive against the safe havens of the
Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in
the mountainous areas in Kurdistan region of
"northern Iraq".
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