Amr Moussa will not visit Kurdistan as Barzani absent – official

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa, will not visit Iraq’s Kurdistan region with the absence of President Massoud Barzani, who is in a foreign tour, the official of the foreign relations of the Kurdish government said. “ Moussa will not visit Iraq’s Kurdistan region because the visit’s demands, presented by the Arab League through its envoy in Baghdad and the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, came while President Barzani was on a foreign tour,” Falah Mustafa told IraqiNews.com news agency. Kurdish President Massoud Barazani started a European tour on February 23. On Monday (March 16) evening, 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. Earlier today, the Arab League chief met with Premier Nouri al-Maliki and expressed Arab countries’ support for Iraq’s national reconciliation project. SH (P)/SR 1