Kurdistan Region's President Massoud Barzani has not objected to the recent visit of the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to Germany, Barzani's adviser said.
Faysal Dabbagh made the statement to counter a report which alleged that in his meeting with Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) MPs to the Iraqi House of Representatives, Barzani said that Talabani's visit to Germany now arouses many questions.

Reports said that Talabani's trip to Germany was for medical tests and he had a surgery on his knee there.
Barzani has not met with the KDP MPs at all, Dabbagh said.

He continued "President Barzani has not made such a remark… the report is entirely baseless and we refute it."

Barzani's KDP and Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are allies in the Kurdistan Blocs Coalition (KBC) in the Iraqi House.

While Barzani is pushing along with Ayad Allawi of Iraqiya List and Muqtada Sadr of Sadr Current to withdraw confidence from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Talabani is trying to act "impartial" and calls for more dialog and negotiations.



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