11-3-02-ko-puk-denis-al-hayat-claim

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*PUK Official Claims Talabani's Statement Distorted by Al-Hayat

(The Kurdistan Observer) Mar 11, 2002. An official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) denied a report published by the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper on Mar 7, quoting Mr. Talabani stating that the Kurdish claim for a federal solution in Iraq "is not a condition", and that the Kurds "may agree on a status of autonomy or even less, under the reign of a central democratic Iraq"

The source said that Mr. Talabani's comments to the media during his
recent visit to Turkey were misinterpreted by Al-Hayat.

The PUK official added that in accordance with the 1992 resolution by
the elected Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament a federal solution within Iraqi has become the claim for the people of Southern Kurdistan.

The leadership of both major parties in Kurdistan, the KDP and PUK,
have expressed their opinions on many occasions of their commitment to the idea of a federated status for Kurdistan with Iraq.

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