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| Iraq |
| Conditions on Kurdistan borders 'stable' |
| 2010-06-24 |
| ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: Conditions on the border regions of Kurdistan are stable due to the diplomatic efforts in the past few days, spokesman of the Peshmerga ministry said on Wednesday. “Presidential statements from Kurdistan region and the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's statements as well as the protests of the Iraqi people pushed the diplomatic efforts to solve the issue of the Iranian shelling of border regions in Kurdistan,' Jabar Yawer told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Regarding military deployments on the border between Iran and Turkey, the spokesman said “we have nothing to do with such deployments. Its an internal Turkish affair.' The Iranian artillery have been shelling some border areas of Iraq under the pretext of attacking outposts of the anti-Iran militias PJAK, killing a Kurdish girl, wounding others and driving dozens of families out of their border villages. PJAK is a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation (Koma Civakên Kurdistan or KCK), which is an alliance of outlawed Kurdish groups and divisions lead by an elected Executive Council. |
| Posted by:Steve White |