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Bush Invites Barzani To Washington

Arbil, 25 July (AKI) - Iraqi Kurdistan's president, Massoud Barzani, has been invited by US president, George W. Bush, to visit the United States for discussions on the political process in Iraq and bilateral cooperation, Kurdish sources on Tuesday told Adnkronos International (AKI). The invitation was delivered to Barzani by US deputy assistant secretary of state for Middle Eastern affairs, David Sutterfield, when the two met in Iraq on the 20 July.

Barzani has already visited USA in 1999, when Bill Clinton was president, reaching an agreement with rival Jalal Talabani, who at the time was head of Kurdistan's Patriotic Union (PUK) and is now Iraq's president.