Al-Sharq al-Awsat: Talibani: Iraq's Kurds are USA's partners against Iraqi regime
Iraq-USA, Politics, 12/2/2002

The secretary general of the Kurdistani National Federation, Jalal al-Talibani, has stressed that the parliament of Kurdistan has approved the principle that the Kurds of Iraq, are the partners of the USA in the struggle against the Iraqi regime and for an independent and democratic Iraq.

In a statement to the London - based al-Sharq al-Awsat daily issued yesterday, Talibani announced that the Turkish leaders informed him they will not interfere in northern Iraq. He called on Ankara to be confident and sure that the Kurds of Iraq are not asking for separation and the establishment of an independent Kurdish state.

The secretary general of the Kurdistani National Federation party disclosed genuine difference between his party and the Kurdistani Democratic Party on the way of dealing with the likely American military interference in Iraq, as al-Barazani, wants to know beforehand what type of regime which will succeed Saddam Hussein, and the provided guarantees to preserve the rights of the Kurds before accepting Washington's plans, while Talibani seems less hesitant.

Talibani said it is presumed that London's conference, which will be held in the mid of this month, December, will form a follow up committee with the mission of coordinating stances in various Iraqi opposition forces.

He said that his party is not, at the meantime, desirous to raise the issue of a provisional Iraqi government with the task of filling the vacuum which will take place following the collapse of the Iraqi regime, because this idea is premature.

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