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IRBIL, Aug 29 (KUNA) -- Iraqi president Jalal Talabani denied on Wednesday
reports that the Iraqi Islamic Party opposed the "joint agreement" aimed to
boost the political process in the country.
On arrival at the Sulaimaniyah airport from Baghdad, Talabani referred to
the "quartet" pact as a giant step to put an end to the political differences
in Iraq.
He emphasized that the agreement gathered all the Iraqi sects noting that
the implementation of the pact would be "a victory for all the Iraqi people
and the involved parties."
Referring to the Iranian shelling of the borders of the Iraq Kurdistan
province, Talabani said he had met with the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad who
vowed to stop the shelling.
In the meantime, Talabani described Turkey's shelling Kurdish areas in
northern Iraq as a bad deed that contradicted the agreements cncluded with the
Iraqi government.(end)
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