AL chief to meet Talabani in Sulaimaniya Thursday

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa will meet Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Sulaimaniya on Thursday. “Moussa will visit Sulaimaniya Thursday (Mar. 19) to meet President Talabani,” according to a statement of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) on Wednesday received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Talabani had arrived in Sulaimaniya earlier today coming from Turkey where he took part in the World Water Forum. On Monday (March 16), Moussa arrived in Iraq and met with Deputy Prime Minister Burham Saleh, Defense Minister Abdelqadir Mohammed Jassem, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed al-Dulaymi. SH (P) 1