Update: Erdogan speech pushed Iraqi parliament session

[Sara Johnson]

Update: Erdogan speech pushed Iraqi parliament sessionMonday, March 28th 2011

10:04 PM

Baghdad, March 28 (AKnews) - Kurdistan Bloc's coalition (KBC) deputy said that

the parliament postponed its session to Tuesday after the Turkish Prime

Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speech, the first reading of the draft law to

protect journalists and the second reading of a proposed law amending the Code

of Criminal Procedure (23) of Article (136) b.

The Deputy, Ashwaq al-Jaff told AKnews that "the Turkish Prime Minister noted

in his speech to the need to strengthen relations between Iraq and Turkey."

"The President of the National coalition in the parliament , Ibrahim al-Jaafari

has asked the Turkish Prime Minister to facilitate the process of supplying

Iraq with water in order to assist Iraq in eliminating the drought and the

prosperity of agriculture in Iraq."

"MP, Fuad Masum demanded Erdogan to solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey by

peaceful means and through dialogue after the Turkish prime minister pointed

out that there are terrorist elements in Kurdistan."

A source in the Turkish embassy in Baghdad told AKnews that the Turkish Prime

Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Baghdad this afternoon and met at

Baghdad International Airport thd Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki , a

number of ministers and members of his office.

"The accompanied delegation consisted of Erdogan , Foreign Minister Ahmed

Dawood Uglo , State Minister Thafer Jaglayan , Minister of Energy and Natural

Resources minister , Taner Yildiz, in addition to a number of Turkish

businessmen."

Erdogan met during his visit the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki , the

Speaker of the parliament ,Osama al-Nujaifi and various Iraqi political

parties, and will meet after the Shiaa cleric Ali al-Sistani and other senior

Shiaa clerics in Najaf.

According to Erdogan's schedule , he will visit Kurdistan after his visit to

Baghdad and will meet with regional president , Massoud Barzani.

Reported by Flayeh al-Jourani

SA/GS AKnews

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