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[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] Iraq's Oil Minister Speaks to BusinessWeek - Investor's Iraq Forum ...: Following the recent OPEC seminar in Vienna, Al-Shahristani spoke frankly with BusinessWeek London Bureau Chief Stanley Reed about these issues, as well as about OPEC and tensions between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government. Edited excerpts follow.

[News, Opionion and Features from Asharq Alawsat English Edition] Asharq Al-Awsat Interviews Iraqi Kurdistan President Masud Barzani ...: Regarding the establishment of a Kurdish state, Barzani said, "This is a legitimate ambition, but we deal with matters according to the existing realities." He affirmed that the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP], which he heads, does not exploit the problems facing its rival, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, but is cooperating to solve them. Barzani affirmed, "We will be a true and faithful ally in their crisis under all circumstances."

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] President Barzani to meet Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace ...: PNA: the framework of his visit to European countries and after the arrival of sovereignty to the British capital London on Monday 9/3/2009, met with Mr. Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan Region President and his entourage at Buckingham Palace by His Royal Highness Prince Andrew Duke of York, son of Her Majesty the Queen Britain.

[Terrorism Focus - The Jamestown Foundation] Rising Arab-Kurdish Tensions over Kirkuk Will Complicate U.S. ...: Kurdish suspicions of Iraq's central government have reignited after a January 22 decision by Baghdad to deploy the army's 12th Division north towards the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk. This development, coupled with U.S. military plans to gradually disengage from Iraq, led Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani to declare that U.S. President Barack Obama "has said more than once that they will withdraw in a responsible manner from Iraq...What we understand by a responsible withdrawal is that the United States resolves the problems outstanding in Iraq [before leaving]"

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?: Sami al-Askari, an MP for the Unified Iraqi Coalition, stresses that "the recent statements made by the Kurds do not serve the political situation in Iraq," and points out to Al-Sharq al-Awsat Online that "Surely there are problems between the central government and the Kurdistan Region government; these differences cannot be solved in this way but through dialogue and commitment to the Constitution."

[Crisis Group - South Asia] International Crisis Group - Hiltermann: Everyone Wants a Piece of ...: Mr Maliki won in part because of a mixture of nationalist rhetoric and military moves that angered the Kurds as much as it pleased many ordinary Arab Iraqis. With parliamentary elections on the horizon within a year, Mr Maliki's recipe of confronting the federalists will produce further tensions with the Kurds, who have enjoyed a rare period of peace at home and great influence in Baghdad.

[GlobalSecurity.org] Iraq: Kurdish Oil Law Poses Problem For Baghdad: In response, Kurdish Prime Minster Nechivan Barzani said the move would be unconstitutional and he issued a statement suggesting that his government may secede if the contracts were rejected. "If Baghdad ministers refuse to abide by that constitution, the people of Kurdistan reserve the right to reconsider our choice," he said.

[Joels Trumpet] Joels Trumpet » Blog Archive » Iraq’s Kurdish-Arab tensions ...: Kurdish parties have installed security forces well south of the United Nations Green Line that’s delineated Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region since 1991. Now Goran promises to seal the borders of the disputed areas of Nineveh if the central government and provincial forces start pressuring the Kurds to relinquish some of the turf they’ve seized from Arabs since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein’s Sunni dictatorship.

[Τζεμίλ Τουράν Μπαζιντί] Τζεμίλ Τουράν Μπαζιντί » Blog Archive » President Barzani ...: President Barzani thanked the UK for helping the Iraqi people and urged the British government to encourage trade and investment in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. On the future of the Region and the country, he said, “Kurdistan will be strong if it is part of a peaceful, federal and democratic Iraq;

[Indybay newswire (video)] Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing? : Indybay: Sami al-Askari, an MP for the Unified Iraqi Coalition, stresses that "the recent statements made by the Kurds do not serve the political situation in Iraq," and points out to Al-Sharq al-Awsat Online that "Surely there are problems between the central government and the Kurdistan Region government; these differences cannot be solved in this way but through dialogue and commitment to the Constitution."

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Iraqi Kurds want US help to avoid war ...: “If the U.S. brigade was not there (in Kirkuk), the Iraqis feel strong and want to come from a position of strength to solve the problem of the disputed territories, which means an unstable Iraq,” said Barzani.

[Talk To Action] Talk To Action | U.S. Christian Evangelicals planted in Kurdish Iraq: In September 2003, four months after US forces defeated Saddam Hussein, 350 evangelical pastors and church leaders assembled in Kirkuk, welcomed by Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani. During the gathering, George Grant, the American director of the Classical School of The Medes, declared that `Jesus Christ is Lord over all things;

[Akkadia's Blog] If You Were Massoud Barzani”¦ « Akkadia’s Blog: Now, you must identify the obstacles: The sheer number of Kurds in Iraq is a bonus - and protection under the new Iraqi constitution protects Kurdish claims to the (Assyrian) lands”¦however, the Assyrians still actually live on their ancient territory, and they are claiming the land as their own. An ethnically and religiously distinct group of people who, in truth, predate Kurds in every single square inch of what is being called “Kurdistan”, are still around, have formed political parties, and are voicing their request for independence in areas Kurds want to incorporate into “Kurdistan”.

[The Washington Independent » Blog] The Washington Independent » Iraqi Voter Turnout Lower Than In 2005?: Iraq's friends in the international community must encourage the national (and largely Arab) Iraqi and regional (Kurdish) leaderships to ratchet down tensions and explore new solutions for some of the most pressing issues: the oil law, Kirkuk, local security forces and the constitution. On a positive note, there is a growing desire among the various Kirkuki ethnic groups to reach a compromise that would be acceptable to the other communities living in Kirkuk, not just to their own.

[MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary] On Iraq's Northern Front, Echoes of Georgia? | Mother Jones: Barzani reportedly considers it his sacred duty to harbor the PKK, while Jalal Talibani, Iraq's Kurdish president, views the PKK as some sort of strategic hedge against Turkish military intervention. First of all that Mr.

[Lessig Blog] Andy Oram on supporting Creative Commons (Lessig Blog): In his presidency Mr Barzani has established several institutions in the Kurdistan Region to develop its emerging democracy, strengthen alliances and improve the decision-making process. In January 2007 he established the Kurdistan Presidency Council, which includes the Deputy President (Mr Kosrat Rasul Ali), the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister and the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region.

[Buzzle: What's the Buzz?] ICG Report, Turkey, Iraq, ”˜Kurdistan’, and the Nefarious, Age-Old ...: In this article, I republish further parts of the controversial Report that serves the promotion of a fake bargain between Turkey and the tyrannical elite of the terrorists Talabani and Barzani, which has been formed under combined French – UK – US guidance in order to man the pseudo-state under formation, ‘Kurdistan’.

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