Abadi directed “diplomatic insult” to Germany
Abadi directed “diplomatic insult” to Germany
Posted, 2017/11/25 23:10
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abolished the German Foreign Minister Zgmar Gabraell his planned visit to the capital of Baghdad.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that the cancellation of the visit came after Prime Minister Haider Abadi refused to meet the German official if he also visited Erbil.
Abadi stopped Gabrielle’s visit in a non-diplomatic manner and strongly opposed the KDP’s political plan to visit Kurdistan after a visit to Baghdad.
“The actual plan of Gabrielle was a diplomatic one. First he wanted to talk to the central government in Baghdad at the beginning of November and then visit Erbil, if the two parties can not hold new talks,” the paper said.
But the Iraqi government told the Foreign Ministry that Jibril wanted to come to Baghdad, and the visit was not desirable, according to the newspaper.
“Chancellor Angela Merkel could not change Abadi’s position from the visit during a telephone call, and then Gabriel completely canceled the trip to Iraq,” Spiegel said.
The German newspaper described Abadi’s rejection of “diplomatic insult” as a sign of the extent of the dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, saying it
was “a problem for the DFB mission, and so far the German soldiers are training Peshmerga forces there, The German government has also equipped the Kurds with generous arms supplies, and Baghdad is also not very enthusiastic about it. ”
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