Arab - Kurdish talks in Cairo arouse Baghdad

Disagreements between Cairo and Baghdad appeared because of Cairo hosting Arab - Kurdish talks, which the Egyptian committee for solidarity, a non-governmental organization, will convene on Wednesday.

The Iraqi Council for Peace and Solidarity protested in a message sent by its leader, Salah El-Mokhtar, to the head of the Egyptian committee for solidarity, Ahmed Hamoroush, the talks, describing them as negative, ignoring the Kurdish problem in Iran and Turkey.

El-Mokhtar expressed Baghdad's anxiety towards these talks, then he said he viewed the call as inappropriate at this time, saying that the talks coincides with British -American efforts to use the Kurdish issue against Iraq in order to divide Iraq into several countries.

In his message he said that the U.S. protects the Iraqi Kurdish in order to continue to isolate northern Iraq under the pretext that Iraq did not implement its commitments to protect minority rights.