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Dr.
Salih Continues Diplomatic Tour with Visits to Finland and Turkey
Kurdistan
Newsline
June
22, 2002
The
Kurdistan Regional Prime Minister Dr. Barham Salih, accompanied by senior
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan officials, Arsalan Bayiz and Emad Ahmad, held
talks with the Deputy Turkish Foreign Minister, Logos Ziyal, and a number
of Turkish officials as part of his current diplomatic tour covering
Sweden, Finland and Turkey. The discussions in Ankara included issues of
bilateral relations and situation in the region. In additions he held meetings
with American and British diplomats based in Ankara.
On
June 18, Dr. Salih and his delegation met with the Foreign Minister of
Finland, Erkki Tuomioja in Helsinki. The Prime Minister called the Finish
Government to support the people of Kurdistan in their quest for national
rights, democracy within the framework of a federal, parliamentary and
pluralistic Iraq. The Foreign Minister affirmed his government’s backing
for the legitimate rights of the Kurdish people in the sphere of human
rights and democracy, and the continued international protection for the
Kurdistan region as part of its support for the existing democratic experiment
in the area. The KRG Prime Minister and his delegation held a series of
meetings with Finish parliamentarians among them the First Deputy Speaker
of Parliament, Antila Sirkka-liisa , the chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee,
Lissa Jaakonsaari, the chairman of the Human Rights Committee and other
high ranking members of the Coordination Committee of political parliamentary
groups. Dr. Salih briefed the Finish parliamentarians about the accomplishments
of the people of Kurdistan region in the last eleven years and the evolving
efforts to bring about political, economic and social reforms in order
to achieve a proper civil society. The parliamentarian lauded the policies
of the KRG to bring about democratic process. Dr. Salih extended an invitation,
from the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, to the Finish parliament to send
a delegation to the Kurdistan region. During the visit to Finland, Dr.
Salih participated in a town hall meeting with members of the Kurdish-Finish
community in Helsinki.
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