A Kurdish official in Bagdad said that Barham Salih's visit, as the former PM of the Kurdistan Regional Government and current deputy of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s (PUK) President Jalal Talabani, is a partisan visit and not related to the Baghdad and Erbil disputes.
The anonymous source added: "Salih as a head of the PUK delegation visited Baghdad along with a number of members of the party's politburo.

"The aim of the visit is to improve the relation between the PUK and Iraqi parties."

The source also said: "As part of the relations between the PUK and the al-Dawa Party, Salih will meet Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the delegation will meet other Iraqi parties."

The Baghdad and Erbil dispute will not be discussed in this visit because it is PUK's visit, confirmed the official.















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