Kurdish delegation to Baghdad for alliance talks – MP

BAGHDAD /Iraqi News A member of Iraq’s outgoing parliament revealed that the main two Kurdish parties will form a high-level delegation to head to Baghdad for talks on the formation of an alliance with the political blocs and powers. “The leaders of incumbent Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) will send a delegation to Baghdad in the next few days to have deliberations with the political powers expected to be winners in the parliamentary elections,” Tania Talaat, a legislator from the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) bloc, told Iraqi News. She noted that there are blocs that have ideas and platforms similar to those of the KA, particularly as regards the application of article 140 of the constitution concerning the issue of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. “The next government lineup would take the winning blocs a long time to finalize,” Talaat noted. AmR (P) 1