AP: Rice Makes Visit to Kurdish North

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Rice Makes Visit to Kurdish North

By ANNE GEARAN

IRBIL, Iraq Oct 6, 2006 (AP)— Convinced that oil revenue is the long-term key
to economic independence for a unified Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish
north.

Rice was visiting the mountain retreat of the region's powerful president,
Massoud Barzani, less than two weeks after the regional government
threatened to break away from Iraq in a dispute over oil.

Rice's two-day trip to Iraq is meant to show U.S. support for the country's
fragile central government, under assault by a spiral of sectarian violence
and growing calls for autonomy among Iraq's regions.

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Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2534696

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