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Two members of Congress offer legislation to raise the Kurdish parties from terror list
BAGHDAD / translation Baghdadi News / .. provide two members of the Senate legislation would raise the legal name of the two Kurdish parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Democratic Party and the black list of terrorist organizations, according to the sentiments, Saturday, Hurriyet newspaper Turkish Daily News.
Officials in the U.S. administration that President Obama supports the move but require legislative action, not an executive order from the White House.
Washington has placed the KDP and the Patriotic Union list of terrorist organizations in 2001 because of their activities in the insurgent Kurdish civil war in the years of the nineties of the last century.
The Senators Robert Menendez chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator John McCain in the provision of the bill that "bipartisan lifted up arms against the regime of President Saddam Hussein has been helped since then to stability in the region."
McCain said in a statement that "It is time to stop treating the KDP and the Patriotic Union that they terrorists." Finished / 21 GS
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Two members of Congress offer legislation to raise the Kurdish parties from terror list
BAGHDAD / translation Baghdadi News / .. provide two members of the Senate legislation would raise the legal name of the two Kurdish parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Democratic Party and the black list of terrorist organizations, according to the sentiments, Saturday, Hurriyet newspaper Turkish Daily News.
Officials in the U.S. administration that President Obama supports the move but require legislative action, not an executive order from the White House.
Washington has placed the KDP and the Patriotic Union list of terrorist organizations in 2001 because of their activities in the insurgent Kurdish civil war in the years of the nineties of the last century.
The Senators Robert Menendez chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator John McCain in the provision of the bill that "bipartisan lifted up arms against the regime of President Saddam Hussein has been helped since then to stability in the region."
McCain said in a statement that "It is time to stop treating the KDP and the Patriotic Union that they terrorists." Finished / 21 GS
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