Because of some technical reasons my last week’s post about Jitem in South Kurdistan was published in Gulan only this week.
The text is in Kurdish here.
As the publishing was delayed I edited a little bit the end of the text. There was new information about the closed seminar for Iraqi delegation in Helsinki:
At the beginning of this month the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, hold a meeting for representatives of various Iraqi groups. All the details of the meeting were kept secret. Mass media found out only that some Iraqi people arrived to Helsinki on Friday the 30th August by a private aeroplane from Jordan. But no one knows who they were and whether there was also representatives of Kurdistan Regional Government.
It was a good starting point if they came in the same aeroplane. Also in Turkey there is a need for peace negotiations and political solution to the crisis. But no one knows when it will be reality. At the moment I doubt if any aeroplane would be big enough for the Turkish negotiators to travel with the PKK negotiators. So hopefully the Iraqi negotiators used also the flying time for discussions.
When the seminar was over on Monday the 3rd September the office of Martti Ahtisaari gave a press release. According to it the people who participated the seminar agreed about a set of recommendations to start negotiations to reach national reconciliation. They agreed of principles of power-sharing and a commitment to stop use of violence.
But what is the value of these words if we do not know who agreed about the targets? Anyway, let's hope there will be good news about peace negotiations, not bad news about Jitem's operations in South Kurdistan!
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