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Iraqi Politics Needs a Roadmap For the Future

Following Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani’s visit to Baghdad at the end of April, Iraq’s political class still has many challenges.
Iraq's Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (L) and Ali Babeer, the leader of the Kurdish Islamic Group, hold a news conference in Arbil, 310 km (193 miles) north of Baghdad July 27, 2009. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ CONFLICT) - RTR264CT
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Since Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani’s visit to Baghdad on April 29, 2013, there has been talk of the agreement signed between Barzani and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, considered to be a “bilateral agreement” that reproduces the “Shiite-Kurdish alliance” theory for the leadership of Iraq.

The seven articles of the agreement, revealed by the Kurdistan Regional Government a few days following the visit, but which were not yet clearly referred to by the Iraqi government until now, reflect an approach that is completely different from the reproduction of the Shiite-Kurd alliance.

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