Iraqi Kurdistan’s two ruling parties call on opposition to resume negotiations.

  ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The two ruling parties in north Iraq ’s Kurdistan Region, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union or Kurdistan (PUK), have called on the opposition parties to resume negotiations, in order to settle the crisis witnessed in the Region, according to a statement they issued on Tuesday.   “The circumstances in Kurdistan are heading towards pacification and the situation is suitable for dialogue and understanding. So, we reaffirm our intention to pacify the situations in Kurdistan and call for dialogue and understanding, to settle the problems, taking into consideration the supreme interests of the people,” both parties said in a statement, after a joint meeting of their political bureaus.   The statement reiterated their readiness to “pacify the conditions in Kurdistan and return to the logic of dialogue and understanding, to settle the problems, taking into consideration the high interests of the people and the protection of their experience.”   The three Kurdistan opposition groups, the Goran (change), the Islamic Union and the Islamic Group, had suspended negotiations with the two main ruling parties in Kurdistan Region, after the entrance of the ruling Peshmerga forces into Sulaimaniya city last week.   The said development had renewed clashes between the security forces and demonstrators in central Sulaimaniya’s Sarai Square and other areas in the city, that caused the injury of several persons from both sides, following an attempt by the security forces and the Peshmergas to disperse a sit-in demonstration that took place in the city since Feb. 17 th last.   SKH (RT)   508