The U.S. Senate advanced a proposal to write off the party Barzani and Talabani of terrorism list
The U.S. Senate advanced a proposal to write off the party Barzani and Talabani of terrorism list
Saturday, April 12 / April 2014 08:41
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The members of the Senate to propose a law to write off the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is led by Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a list of U.S. terrorist organizations, an initiative backed by the administration of President Barack Obama.
And intends to Senators John McCain and Robert Menendez in their proposal that foot on Friday to put an end to this outdated classification.
McCain said, “It is time to stop treating the two Kurdish parties that they terrorists.”
He added that “This category betray our friends and allies the Kurds who had been a stabilizing force in the region and proved their loyalty to the United States Permanent years ago.”
In a statement to the Representation of the Kurdistan region of Iraq in the United States that “Barzani refuses to go to Washington as long as the two parties are still officially classified as terrorist organizations.”
He was in charge of the file of Iraq and Iran in the State Department’s part Macgork, said at a hearing before Congress last February that “the Kurdish people and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party are among the closest friends in the region for decades. Consider that it should be removed from this list as soon as possible. ”
This is because classification of the two Kurdish parties by Washington to 2001 on the basis of the armed conflict, which led the two parties against the former regime in the nineties of the last century and held them in the black list of America, which consists of three levels, with the inclusion of the two parties in the third level of which, since it has political parties and movements fighting their governments.
He was scheduled to visit Barzani, the United States late last year, but repeatedly postponed on the back to keep the Washington party KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the regulation of U.S. blacklist of terrorist organizations, which is still the U.S. government retain their names in its blacklist. According to informed sources. Ended
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