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US asks Baghdad to pull back from northern Iraq
ANKARA. Apr 20 The United States has asked Iraq to pull its troops well beck from the Zakho region of northern Iraq to make way for refugee havens, a US diplomat said on Saturday reports
-We asked for the with draws! of Iraqi forces to a line 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of (the town of) Zakho.’ the diplomat toid Reuter
The idea to to give US breathing space in the Zakho valley where we plan to set up transitory camps for the
He said US Lieutenant-General John Shalikashvtll. allied task force commander, had transmitted the demand at Friday's meeting with two senior Iraqi officers just inside ""rhe Iraqi delegation asked to study the proposal," the diplomat said. ’Negotiations
and allied of fleers met two Iraqi Brigadier — Generals, Nushwan Danoun
and Abdul-Hafiz Jezail. for 50 minutes on the Iraqi side of the Habur crossing between Iraq and Turkey.
The US General said later no further meeting had been arranged saying issues would be pursued through other
Meanwhile. AP adds from Damascus : Efforts are under way to arrange a meeting between Kurdish leaders and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to discuss the plight of millions of Kurdish refugees.
a Kurdish spokesman said
There are direct contacts between us and Iraq! officials to arrange for these discussions.'' said Flak cl Deen Kakat a spokesman! for the Kurdish Democratic fcrty one of the two main Airdlsh guerrilla factions
Kakat said lie had no de tails on how or when such a meeting would take place
But he stressed that one prerequisites for such talks was that they be sponsored by the United Nations
’ The Kurds Insist on that.’ he saki
Kakal said talks should fa cua on the refugees and also the Kurd's decades — long struggle for autonomy tn Iraq
Reuter from London says : A high level Kurdish delegation to In Baghdad at Iraq's Invlta tton to discuss an Iraqi offer to grant expanded autonomy for the Kurds within a pluralistic political system, a Kurdish spokesman said today
The delegation to led by prominent Kurdish leader Jail
Talabani, a spokesman for Talabani s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said In London.
They are discussing an Iraqi offer for expanded autonomy within the federated structure of Iraq, promising democracy, pluralism and constitutional rule tn Baghdad spokesman Barham Saleh sold
Another report from Damascus says : The Iraqi Shi'ite opposition reported fresh fighting against government troops in southern Iraq today and rejected any negotiations with Baghdad.
Ayatollah Taqi Al-Mudarresl. the mentor of several Shi ite opposition groups including the Islamic action organisation. said in a statement fight Ing was continuing in and around the cities of Basra. Tannumah and Karbala.
He said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a war criminal who should be punished and no negotiations should be conducted with him or his government.
Mudarresi is part of a 17-member anti-Saddam alliance which includes the Kurdish groups whose leaders were reported to be holding talks in Baghdad on autonomy for Kurds in northern Iraq.
The Kurds. Shi'ites and other opposition groups formed the alliance to topple Saddam in December and launched a rebellion in March after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War.
Mudarrest did not refer directly to the reported Iraqi Kurdish talks but said, "how could anybody negotiate with the one who destroyed Iraq and humiliated the Iraqis?"
Mudarresi said rebels attacked Saddam's Republican Guards In Tannumah near Basra today and destroyed three T-72 Tanks.
Near the Shatt al-Arab waterway. rebels clashed with government troops and in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala rebels, made hit-and-run attacks on Saddam troops, he added.
He said the Iraqi authorities took reprisals against the families of the rebels in Karbala and blew up 17 houses in Hussein suburb of the city.
The three mosques where the rebels started their uprising in Karbala were demolished by Saddam's men," he added.
The statement said over 30,000 refugees, mainly women and children, had crossed into Iran in the last 24 hours. More than 700,000 more were on their way to Iran from northern Iraq.