Barzani, Ashton discuss the outstanding problems between Erbil and Baghdad and the Syrian file
Barzani, Ashton discuss the outstanding problems between Erbil and Baghdad and the Syrian file
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 16:27
BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya Enoz / .. Search Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani, on Tuesday, with the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union Catherine Ashton and her entourage, the outstanding problems between the center and the region and the issue of Syrian refugees.
A statement by the Presidency of the Kurdistan region received / Baghdadi News / copy of it, that “Barzani said during a meeting with Pashtun” the need to resolve outstanding issues between the KRG and the federal government, “adding that” the problems that have emerged in Iraq are the result of non-compliance the foundations of partnership and co-existence ” .
The statement added that “the two sides discussed during the meeting, one of Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan region, where he confirmed Barzani that the international community has been remiss towards helping Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan region,” calling on the EU to “pressure on the international community to pay greater attention to refugees Syrians,” noting that “Barzani called Ashton, to intensify their efforts to define the crimes of Anfal and chemical attacks suffered by the people of Kurdistan to crimes of genocide at the international level.”
He added that “the Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani gave an explanation of the general dimensions of energy policy pursued by the Kurdistan Regional Government,” adding that “this policy does not contradict with the Iraqi constitution and we believe that the oil resources are right for each of the components in Iraq.”
“It is part and Ashton promised to work to deliver the request of the definition of crimes of Anfal and chemical attacks of genocide to the concerned authorities.”
Ashton’s visit is the first of Iraq more than a year ago, where she visited Ashton Iraq on May 23, 2012, to head the EU’s delegation in the meetings of the Group (5 +1), the Iranian nuclear file, which was held in a timely manner in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
It is said that the representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs had met on Monday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al. Finished / 21
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