US embassy cable - 05ANKARA397

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LETTER FROM KRG PM BARZANI TO AMBASSADOR EDELMAN

Identifier: 05ANKARA397
Wikileaks: View 05ANKARA397 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Ankara
Created: 2005-01-25 16:50:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: PGOV PREL TU IZ
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

C O N F I D E N T I A L ANKARA 000397 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/25/2015 
TAGS: PGOV, PREL, TU, IZ 
SUBJECT: LETTER FROM KRG PM BARZANI TO AMBASSADOR EDELMAN 
 
REF: A. BAGHDAD 297 
     B. AMB. EDELMAN-PETER THOMPSON EMAIL 1/24/05 (NOTAL) 
 
Classified By: Ambassador Eric S. Edelman for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
1. (C) Embassy Ankara concurs with Embassy Baghdad's advice 
(ref a) that Ambassador Edelman should not respond to KRG PM 
Nechirvan Barzani's letter.  Ambassador said as much in ref 
b.  We do, however, recommend that Embassy Baghdad or REO 
Kirkuk assure Barzani and other contacts that Ambassador 
Edelman never told the Turkish press anything other than that 
the rights of all those who were adversely affected by 
efforts to change the demography in Saddam's time should be 
addressed by a transparent, law-based restitution process as 
called for under Article 58 of the TAL.  Indeed, as early as 
last spring Embassy Ankara called for accelerating the 
process of establishing the Iraqi Property Claims Commission. 
 
2. (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 
EDELMAN 

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