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Iraqi Kurdistan's border with Syria is
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The secretary general of the Ministry of Peshmerga,
lieutenant general , Jabbar Yawar. Photo: Yawar's
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January 7, 2013
ERBIL-Hewlęr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— The Kurdistani Peshmerga
Ministry announced that the region border with Syria
is open.
The ministry spokesman, Jabbar Yawar said, in a
press statement Monday, January 7: "The news of the
closure of the Kurdistan region borders with Syria
and fenced them with barbed wire is untrue."
He added "All that the border area between the
region and Syria is open, but there are not state
border crossings to traffic and trade" but he also
said that "the provincial government cannot, legally
and constitutionally, open official border crossings
in this region."
He continued: "Despite this and for humanitarian and
national reasons, the Government of the province
seeks to cooperate with the all affected people in
Syria."
The Syrian Kurds
demanded last
month, the President of Kurdistan region, Massoud
Barzani to opening the border between Kurdistan
region and Syria to facilitate the passage of fuel
and goods to the Kurdish areas after the siege
imposed by the Syrian government and the opposition,www.ekurd.net
that wants to "limit the role of the Kurds. The
presidency of Kurdistan region denied the news at
that time.
More than 63,000 Syrian refugees have fled the
bloody conflict in their home country for
neighbouring Iraq, according to figures released by
the UN High Commissioner for Refugees last December.
Most of them -- 54,550 -- were in the three-province
autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraqq, while 8,852 were located in Anbar province in the
west and 94 in other provinces.
In July 2012, Iraqi Kurdish security forces have
prevented Iraqi
Arab soldiers sent by Baghdad from reaching a
disputed north Iraq area that borders Syria.
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