Barzani Starts Saudi Visit
Web posted at: 3/13/2007
Source: AFP
RIYADH • The president of the
autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), Massoud Barzani, arrived yesterday
in the Saudi capital, the official news agency SPA reported.
Barzani will hold talks with
Saudi officials during a visit of “a few days” to the oil-rich kingdom, his
spokesman Fuad Hussein said. The visit was at the invitation of Custodian of the
Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
“During the visit president
Barzani will discuss bilateral relations with the kingdom, besides the security
and political situation in Iraq,” he said. Iraq on February 14 reopened its
embassy in Riyadh, which had been shut since December 1990, shortly before
US-led allied forces drove the Iraqi occupying army out of neighbouring Kuwait.
