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K.D.P.
Officials Zebari And Barzani To Come To Ankara
Anadolu
Agency
Oct
17, 2002
ANKARA - Hosyar
Zebari and Necirvan Barzani, two Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials
will have contacts in Ankara.
A KDP official
said on Thursday that the visit of Zebari, the KDP official in charge of
international relations and Barzani, the nephew of KDP leader Massaud Barzani
and KDP official in charge of regional administration is expected to take
place next week.
The KDP official
said that the visit would take place within the scope of the decision taken by
the sides to hold direct meetings about developments, during the visit of
Zebari to Ankara 1.5 months ago.
Issues such as the
Kurdish parliament, representation of Turkmens and draft of federal
constitution are expected to be taken up during KDP officials' meeting in
Ankara.
Zebari had
conveyed the message of Barzani who said that ''we don't want to escalate
tension in relations with Turkey,'' during his last visit to Ankara he paid
after the meeting of Iraqi opposition leaders in Washington D.C.
While the
developments in Northern Iraq are on the agenda of Ankara, Foreign Ministry
stated on Wednesday about the last statement of Barzani that ''if the goal in
those statements is to 'intimidate', I am unwilling to use the word
'threaten', the Turkish state and public, who contributed to the well-being of
Northern Iraqi Kurdish community, this is an extremely inappropriate and
irrelevant approach which Northern Iraqi Kurdish community would not adopt and
consider it beneficial for their own interests.'' |
