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Kurdish delegation heads to Iran to discuss border closures
Oct 4, 2007, 12:26 GMT
Baghdad - An official Kurdish delegation headed Thursday morning to Iran to discuss the recent border closures, independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported, citing an official Kurdish source.
The delegation included senior leaders from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government Jamal Abdullah said.
'We are looking forward to reaching an agreement between the Kurdish region and Iran because border closures have negatively affected the interests of the (two sides),' Abdullah added.
Two weeks ago, Iranian authorities closed all of the country's five border crossings with the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq to protest the US forces' arrest of an Iranian citizen.
The Iranian man is suspected of being involved with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and of allegedly smuggling weapons into Iraq.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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