Saleh in Rome and Barzani in Baghdad .. Visits on the agenda of "coincidence"

**claud39** on Sat Nov 24, 2018 8:28 am

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Saleh in Rome and Barzani in Baghdad .. Visits on the agenda of "coincidence"

The visit

of President Barham Salih to Italy to attend an international conference, with the arrival of the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Massoud Barzani to the capital Baghdad, which he sees as some attempt to not meet the two parties, especially after the tension between them after Saleh won the presidency of the Republic, which was Barzani He aspires to include them in his electoral gains.

"Al-Ghad Press" polled by some politicians on this matter whether the intended or the agenda and the dates played a role in this "coincidence", politicians preferred not to mention their names, they were likely to visit Saleh to Italy an attempt not to meet Barzani, or to avoid embarrassment may get In the event did not include the schedule of Barzani's visit to Baghdad a paragraph to meet with the President of the Republic.

"There is no doubt that the conference of the" dialogues of the Mediterranean "held in the Italian capital Rome coincided with the visit of Barzani to Baghdad, and it was necessary to participate the President of the Republic, especially that he received an invitation, but the timing of leaving Saleh is what sets question marks.

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On Wednesday, President Barham Salih left the capital Baghdad for Rome on an official visit to the "Dialogue of the Mediterranean" conference, a day before the arrival of a senior delegation from the Kurdistan Democratic Party headed by Massoud Barzani to Baghdad, whose convoy and bodyguards Had arrived before him to the capital on the same day as Saleh left for Rome.

"President Barham Salih's visit to Italy to attend the conference and to meet with the Holy Father was prepared for weeks, and it has nothing to do with Barzani's visit to Baghdad," said Luqman Faily, spokesman for President Barham Salih.

He commented on the possibility of a future meeting between the parties, saying "for each incident is modern and can not answer the assumptions do not exist."

But the MP for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Mayada Mohammed Ismail, confirmed that the agenda of Barzani's visit did not include a meeting with Saleh, "The visit of Massoud Barzani and coincided with the visit of the President of the Republic to Rome unintended, and basically the meeting between the parties was not present in the program for a visit Barzani to Baghdad "He said.

"Before the formation of the government and the distribution of ministries there were reciprocal visits and most of the leaders of the political blocs visited Barzani at his residence and invited him to visit Baghdad before taking the presidency of Barham Saleh."

Ismail expected "to have meetings between Saleh and Barzani in the future."

It is noteworthy that the relationship was strained between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the traditional rival of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan after the latter nominated Barham Saleh to the presidency, although he was a dissident from the party and founded a political movement independent of the Union and entered the elections with a list of his own, while the Democratic Party nominated Fouad Hussein for the presidency, Saleh in office.

It was customary that the presidency go to the Talabani party and the presidency of the region to Barzani Party, but the latter turned on in this context in the recent elections and aspired to the presidency of the Republic, as the dispute grew after the Kurdistan Democratic Party that the Kurdistan "won his share of positions" by obtaining the presidency of the Republic And that the democratic right to obtain the "Kurdish quota" of the ministries.