Talabani back to Sulaimaniya from Paris

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani returned to north Iraq’s Kurdistan city of Sulaimaniya from Paris, where he participated in the annual conference of the Socialist International, held in the French capital on November 15-16, according to a presidential press release on Thursday. President Talabani had attended the annual conference of the Socialist International in his capacity as vice chairman of the organization, read the statement as received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Talabani was elected vice chairman of the organization during its meeting in the Greek capital Athens in July 2008. The Socialist International is an international political organization, comprising different world socialist and labor parties. The Socialist International comprises full members, advisors and assistants and among the parties considered members of the first group are: the Algerian National Liberation Front, Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party, the French Socialist Party, Tunisian Democratic Constitutional Grouping, Turkey’s Republican People’s Party, the Israeli Labor Party. Among the consultative parties in the organization are Palestine’s Fatah Movement and the Democratic Grouping for Labor & Freedoms in Tunisia while Yemen’s Socialist Party has an observer status. SKH (S)/AmR 1