Al Jazeera (Qatar) : "US urges end to Iraqis' differences"

US urges end to Iraqis' differences

Gates, left, told Barzani, right, that the US was prepared to assist in resolving the disputes [AFP]
 

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has urged Iraq's ethnic Kurds and majority Arabs to resolve their entrenched dispute over oil and land before a scheduled American troop withdrawal by 2012.

Gates told Masoud Barzani, the newly re-elected president of Iraq's semi-autonomous north, that the US was prepared to provide "whatever assistance to help resolve these disputes in a peaceful manner.

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