Al Jazeera (Qatar) : "Iraq decries US-Sunni group talks"

Iraq decries US-Sunni group talks

Clinton said she just recently was told about the talks [AFP]

Iraq has criticised the United States for holding talks with an armed Sunni group which Baghdad describes as "terrorists".

Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, said in Washington on Thursday that representatives of the "Iraqi resistance movement" met Turkish officials and at least one US official last spring.

"We, the Iraqi government, were amazed that representatives from the American and Turkish sides met with representatives from those groups," Zebari told Al-Hurra, the official Arabic-language US television station.

"How do you expect allies and friends of the government and the political process to meet and negotiate with parties that are accused of terrorism?" he said.

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