Maliki talks axis Kurds with Washington

Maliki talks axis Kurds with Washington





The time on Thursday, April 11 / April 2013 08:03 | |



BAGHDAD / Yousef Salman

Kurdish sources informed that the Kurdish delegation's visit to Washington, which began two days ago, will focus on intensifying U.S. pressure on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to end the ongoing series of differences with the Kurdistan region and resolve the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil. The sources told that the meeting of Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani with Kurdish forces and parties concluded the futility of dialogue efforts to repair relations with the federal government, amid continuing approach the prime minister and his coalition to raise disagreements with the Kurds within the government and parliament.



The sources, who declined to give her name, said the policy Maliki and uniqueness power makes dialogue impossible with his coalition does not lead to results, and the need for the role of the U.S. to put pressure on the leader of a coalition of state law and restrained become more urgent than ever, indicating that the conferees assigned Kurdish delegation mission Transfer Kurdish viewpoint to Washington to bolster the position of Arbil at the disregard of Baghdad to their demands and the failure of internal mediation and efforts to bring the parties together.

The sources confirmed that the six-party representative political forces in the Kurdistan region delivered the National Alliance message crucial to determining the future of the partnership between the parties or unseal formally. Includes the Kurdish delegation that will carry the message of Kurdish forces to the National Alliance in Baghdad Fuad Masum, chairman Kurdistan Alliance bloc parliamentary and Rose Nuri Shaways Vice Prime Minister of the Federal Government member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Sardar Abdullah, head of the Kurdish parliamentary change in Baghdad and Najib Abdullah head of the Kurdistan Islamic Union and Ali Baber the head of the Islamic Group.

It is said that the Kurdish delegation who arrived in Washington two days before Prime Minister Fouad Hussein, President of the Presidium of the region and includes Ashti Hawrami, minister of natural resources and Falah Mustafa Foreign Relations Department official Qubad Talabani, son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and an official Department of Coordination and Follow-up in the Government of the Territory.

According to a statement to the presidency of the province, the delegation will discuss during his visit to Washington relations between the region and the United States, also convey a vision and perspectives of the political leadership of Kurdistan to U.S. officials about several issues, will also meet with senior officials in the White House and State Department and Pentagon and visit both houses of Congress of Deputies and the Senate.



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