Monday, 29 October 2007,
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VOI
Talabani discussed Ahmedinejad means of peacefully resolving the current political crisis.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed over the phone with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmedinejad means of peacefully resolving the current political crisis with Turkey, according to a presidential statement released on Sunday.
"The Iranian president stressed during a phone call with Talabani on Saturday evening his solidarity with the Iraqi people's desire to live in peace and expressed his willingness to make considerable efforts to peacefully end the current tension along the Iraqi-Turkish borders," said.
During the phone call, al-Talabani urged Ahmedinejad to spare no effort to convince Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, currently in Iran, to use dialogue and peaceful means for resolving conflicts instead of resorting to military action.
A high-ranking official Iraqi delegation, headed by Minister of Defense Muhammad Abdul Qadir al-Obeidi, arrived in Turkey on Thursday to discuss peaceful solutions to the crisis that erupted between the two countries.
Iraqi President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd
Turkey has amassed up to 100,000 troops along the frontier in preparation for a cross-border operation to crush about 3,000 guerrillas of the PKK, most recently blamed for attacks that killed 15 Turkish soldiers over two weeks ago.
The Turkish parliament approved a memorandum forwarded by the government allowing the Turkish army to hunt down members of the Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq'. Only 19 out of 555 legislators in the Turkish parliament voted against the proposal.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
"The Iranian president stressed during a phone call with Talabani on Saturday evening his solidarity with the Iraqi people's desire to live in peace and expressed his willingness to make considerable efforts to peacefully end the current tension along the Iraqi-Turkish borders," said.
During the phone call, al-Talabani urged Ahmedinejad to spare no effort to convince Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan, currently in Iran, to use dialogue and peaceful means for resolving conflicts instead of resorting to military action.
A high-ranking official Iraqi delegation, headed by Minister of Defense Muhammad Abdul Qadir al-Obeidi, arrived in Turkey on Thursday to discuss peaceful solutions to the crisis that erupted between the two countries.
Iraqi President : Jalal Talabani, a Kurd
Turkey has amassed up to 100,000 troops along the frontier in preparation for a cross-border operation to crush about 3,000 guerrillas of the PKK, most recently blamed for attacks that killed 15 Turkish soldiers over two weeks ago.
The Turkish parliament approved a memorandum forwarded by the government allowing the Turkish army to hunt down members of the Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in Kurdistan region 'northern Iraq'. Only 19 out of 555 legislators in the Turkish parliament voted against the proposal.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
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