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  Kurdistan to take charge of security
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News DateWednesday, May 30, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionMassoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan region, will today sign a security agreement with the international coalition forces, said Kurdish security officials.

Under the agreement the Kurdistan civilian authority will assume the security operations in Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniya, said the officials.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki will attending the signing ceremony, said sources.

Jabbar Al Yawar, Iraqi Forces General Command Spokesman in Kurdistan, told Gulf News: "The memo [agreement] contains 30 pages and it was issued after painstaking negotiations which lasted more than a year. It contains a structure to organise the relationship between federal government forces and their coalition counterparts, besides it organises the process of sending Kurdistan troops to Baghdad and vice-versa."

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