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Talabani, Barzani meet in Erbil
6.10.2008
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October 6, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region "Iraq", —
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Erbil, the
capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region, on
Monday and held a meeting with the region's
president, Massoud Barzani, an informed source said.
"The two leaders are now holding a meeting in the
resort of Salah al-Din, (25 km) east of Erbil," the
source told VOI.
The source expected the meeting,www.ekurd.net
attended by members of
Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and
Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
politburos, to "take up recent developments in Iraq
and the Kurdistan region as well as efforts to deal
with problems marring relations between the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the federal
government". |
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (R) and Iraq's
Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani |
Earlier on Monday, the region presidency's media
spokesman, Faysal al-Dabbagh, said that Talabani
will leave for the city of Erbil to meet Barzani.
The two sides will discuss the political situation
in Iraq in general and the autonomous Iraqi
Kurdistan region in particular, he added.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Muhammad, a member of the KDP
politburo,www.ekurd.net
said that the meetings
between the two sides will continue until afternoon
today.
Muhammad did not give further details.
The PUK and KDP are the main two components of the
Kurdistan Alliance (KA), the second largest bloc in
the Iraqi parliament with 53 out of a total 275
seats.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, VOI
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