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Presidency of Kurdistan: Maliki's visit to Kirkuk aimed to create differences between Talabani and Barzani
On: Tuesday 15/5/2012 7:42
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presidency was considered the Kurdistan region of Iraq, yesterday, said that the goal of visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the province of Kirkuk is to create differences between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by President Jalal Talabani and the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Prime Minister of Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani.
The head of the Presidium of the Kurdistan region, Fouad Hussein, in a press statement, "The visit of Maliki's recent visit to the province of Kirkuk was intended to create differences between the PUK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party."
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, visited on the eighth of May, the current, to the province of Kirkuk and the holding of the meeting of the Council of Ministers, which asserts that in which the identity of Kirkuk, an Iraqi and you should not overshadow the identity of the other, and while he noted that the Kirkuk issue is not resolved by force and dictations, pointed out that the city of Kirkuk is Iraq microcosm and an example of brotherhood and peaceful coexistence among all Iraqis.
and contradicted statements of deputies of the Kurdistan Alliance on the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the province of Kirkuk and the holding of meeting of the Council of Ministers which, at a time considered the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mohsen Saadoun is appropriate under the current circumstances, some considered it a positive step to improve the situation in the province and felt that the statement Maliki on consideration of Kirkuk, an Arab but is normal and not a provocation to the citizens of the Kurds, regarded others as provocative to the Kurds and trying to send messages to the region that Kirkuk can not be annexed.
in attacking the presidency of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, strongly the visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Kirkuk, believing that his comments that the identity Kirkuk, an Arab but is "to win over chauvinists," asserting that Maliki can not impose the identity of Kirkuk bring brigades and aircraft to it.
The Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, was considered the eighth of May, the current, in the words of its spokesman, Haider Mulla, the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Kirkuk and considered that the heavy deployment of armed military forces there and one of the "provocative actions" exercised by the Prime Minister with the Kurds, accusing al-Maliki and his party of trying to "raise the national sedition" in the country "after he felt the real threat of withdrawal of confidence from it."
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