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Iraqi
Kurdistan President, US Ambassador discuss Kirkuk issue, Oil
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Iraqi Kurdistan President, US Ambassador
discuss Kirkuk issue, Oil bill
21.7.2008
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July
21, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region "Iraq", —
The Iraqi Kurdistan Region president, Massoud
Barzani, and the US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan
Crocker, discussed Kirkuk issues, constitutional
Article 140 and the Oil and Gas Bill in a meeting
held in Salah-al-Din summer resort, Erbil
Governorate, on 20 July, pro-Kurdistan Democratic
Party website Peyamner reported on 20 July.
The website reported that Barzani had received a US
embassy delegation headed by Ambassador Crocker in
Salah-al-Din,www.ekurd.net
on 20 July, discussing
means of strengthening ties between the USA and
Iraq, the talks on US-Iraq agreement and Kirkuk
issues.
The delegates also held "intensive discussions on
the Governorate Council Elections Bill, hoping for
the Iraqi parliament to reach a decision on it" and
the majority of the Iraqi blocs to support it,
Peyamner added.
In another part of the meeting, the two delegates
discussed the Oil and Gas Bill and the UNAMI's role
in the implementation process of Article 140. |
U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker (R) and Massoud
Barzani, Kurdistan region president (L), in Erbil,
20 July 2008 |
Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan
region and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG),
lies 349 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
In 2005, its estimated population was 990,000
inhabitants.
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