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Envoy Denies KRG-Washington Talks on Establishment of US Base in Iraqi Kurdistan
TEHRAN, May 15 (FNA)- Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has held no negotiations with the American officials on the establishment of US military bases in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, Representative of the Kurdistan Patriotic Union in Tehran Nazem Dabbaq said on Saturday.
"Negotiations between the Kurdish and American officials were held "but establishment of a military base was not an agenda", Dabbaq told FNA.
"The meeting was held last Sunday but there were no talks about setting up a military base in Kurdistan," he reiterated, and added, "Kurdistan's situation and the regional conditions were the only topics discussed in the meeting."
Earlier, the secretary general of the Peshmerga Ministry and official spokesman of the Kurdistan Region's Guards Forces had denied any knowledge of talks regarding an American desire to establish permanent military bases in the Region, and stressed that Washington wishes to strengthen its relations with Erbil diplomatically and not militarily.
In reply to a question about press speculations that the United States wishes to establish military bases inside the Kurdistan Region's areas and which were associated with the statements by Assistant US Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman during his meeting with the Region's President, Massoud Barzani, last week, Major General Jabbar Yawir told Asharq Al-Awsat, "I believe the statements attributed to the US President about his desire to establish long-term strategic relations with Kurdistan Region which were conveyed by Feltman mean the establishment of long-term diplomatic relations."
"There is not, to my knowledge, any talk about establishing permanent American military bases in Kurdistan Region nor in Iraq," he added.
"Negotiations between the Kurdish and American officials were held "but establishment of a military base was not an agenda", Dabbaq told FNA.
"The meeting was held last Sunday but there were no talks about setting up a military base in Kurdistan," he reiterated, and added, "Kurdistan's situation and the regional conditions were the only topics discussed in the meeting."
Earlier, the secretary general of the Peshmerga Ministry and official spokesman of the Kurdistan Region's Guards Forces had denied any knowledge of talks regarding an American desire to establish permanent military bases in the Region, and stressed that Washington wishes to strengthen its relations with Erbil diplomatically and not militarily.
In reply to a question about press speculations that the United States wishes to establish military bases inside the Kurdistan Region's areas and which were associated with the statements by Assistant US Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman during his meeting with the Region's President, Massoud Barzani, last week, Major General Jabbar Yawir told Asharq Al-Awsat, "I believe the statements attributed to the US President about his desire to establish long-term strategic relations with Kurdistan Region which were conveyed by Feltman mean the establishment of long-term diplomatic relations."
"There is not, to my knowledge, any talk about establishing permanent American military bases in Kurdistan Region nor in Iraq," he added.
