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Talabani returns to Iraqi Kurdistan after
medical check up in Germany
25.1.2012
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Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, he is carrying out
medical checkups in Germany. Photo Reuters.
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January
25, 2012
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — President Jalal
Talabani will return to Sulaimaniyah on Thursday
having spent more than a week in Germany for medical
treatment.
Fuad Maasum, a spokesman from Talabani's Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan party, told AKnews the President
has undergone tests in Germany and is due in Iraq on
Thursday.
He added it is urgent the President returns home
soon "because most of the preparations for the
national congress are bound to his return."
Talabani has called for a summit meeting of the
political leaders as a measure to end a crisis that
was created after Iraqiya List boycotted the
sessions of the Council of Ministers and the Council
of Representatives. The predominantly Sunni bloc
shunned the parliament and cabinet over what it sees
as Maliki's attempts to dissolve the unity
government and institute Shiite majority rule.
Talabani's return is also crucial as PUK is in
discussions with the Kurdistan Democratic Party,www.ekurd.net
led by Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani, over
power sharing in Kurdistan Region. It is now KDP's
turn to hold the Kurdish Prime Minister's office,
replacing PUK Prime Minister Barham Salih, so senior
jobs in the new cabinet must be dolled out.
Also,
Talabani, 78, has had a long relationship with the
US's Mayo Clinic. In the fall of 2009, he traveled here for a
medical visit, and
he underwent a reportedly successful
heart surgery
at the clinic in August 2008.
Aknews part of this news by Rebin Hassan
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