Posted on 06/10/2004 11:22:01 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Iraq's new president, seeking to calm tensions between his nation's Shi'ites and Kurds, pledged yesterday that promises of Kurdish autonomy in the country's interim constitution will be honored.
"Iraq will be a free and democratic federal country. Federalism has been accepted by all Iraqis," Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer said during his first visit to Washington since being named to the largely ceremonial post last week.
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