Kurdish delegation off to Baghdad on disputed Khanaqin
A delegation comprised of Kurdish leaders on Sunday headed to the Iraqi capital to discuss the Khanaqin crisis with senior officials from the central government, a cabinet secretary in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said.
"Today, a Kurdish delegation that included the secretary general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Barham Saleh; a member of the PUK's political bureau, Fuoad Massoum; members of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Hoshyar Zebari and Roz Nouri Shawis, headed to Baghdad to take up the Khanaqin crisis with senior Iraqi officials," Qurra Daghi told VOI.
The delegation will remain in Baghdad for three or four days, and will tackle other areas of dispute, the source noted.
The source did not provide further details.
On Tuesday, thousands of Khanaqin residents took to the street protesting against the presence of Iraqi army forces in their district.
Khanaqin, northeast of Baquba in the central province of Diyala, is a flashpoint district subject to frequent attacks by insurgents.
The district, which includes a string of villages and some of Iraq's oil reserves, is home to about 175,000 people, most of them Kurdish Shiites.
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