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12/07/2011 22:01





Erbil, July 12 (Rn) - met the new U.S. Secretary of Defense on Tuesday in Arbil, in which his visit to Iraq, the President of the Kurdistan region.



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The delegation accompanying the Minister of Defense of the new Leon Panetta, who received from the Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani, both the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey and the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq Ganwal Austin and a number of advisers who were part of the accompanying delegation, according to a statement published in the official site of the presidency of the province.



Attended the meeting between Barzani and Panetta, both the Prime Minister Barham Salih and Vice President Azad Berwari, Minister of Peshmerga Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa, Interior Minister Karim Sinjari, president of the Presidium of the province Fuad Hussein, an official Relations Department of Foreign Affairs Government of the province Falah Mustafa, the U.S. consul general public Alex Soares.



The Minister of Defense's new on the results of his talks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as well as valuing the role and the leadership of Barzani in the formation of the Iraqi government, expressing its support to complete the process Tkachil government, especially the issue of filling the security positions that have not yet been resolved, and a student of Massoud Barzani is playing its role in bringing The views and opinions of the rival parties in Iraq.



The two sides to the issue of the level of Iraq's relations with America after the withdrawal of the forces of this country from Iraq and the prospects for survival and the future of relations between the two countries in general and between the Kurdistan region and America, said U.S. Secretary of Defense on the strength of friendship between the province and his country, saying that America sees the region into the friend, adding that of his country's special relationship with the region in the framework of a federal Iraq.



In contrast, Barzani said that the people of Kurdistan participated along with the U.S. Army to make sacrifices, he said, adding that the goal of those sacrifices was to deliver Iraq to a day like this, so we will do everything we can to maintain security and stability.



The meeting concluded with an exchange of views on the latest developments in some countries in the region.



From: Hawar, see: Ehsan Aervani