BAGHDAD - Iraqi Foreign Ministry's Steering Committee Chairman Muhammed Emin Muhammed Ahmed said on Tuesday that Turkey and Iraq would have better bilateral relations after formation of new government in Iraq.
Speaking to the A.A correspondent, Ahmed who is responsible for official correspondence of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry with the embassies and consulates in foreign countries, said that the situation in Iraq would become better, and security and stability would be consolidated following formation of new government.
Stressing that Turkey was an important state in the region, Ahmed said their relations with Turkey had a root deep in history.
Noting that consolidation of friendly relations between Turkey and Iraq would be beneficial to peoples of all countries, Ahmed said that Turkey had a role in providing stability and security in the region.
Replying a question about policy of new Iraqi government, Ahmed said that new government would follow its policy on basis of good relations with all Arab-Islam world and all foreign countries and it would not intervene in domestic affairs of any country.
Responding a question about mistakes of the deposed regime in Iraq, Ahmed said that Saddam regime had not solved Kurdish problem on concrete basis, and it had not granted Iraqi Turkmens political rights, conducting assimilation policy toward those two groups.
Replying another question, Ahmed said, ''Turkey expended great efforts to prevent a war but all those efforts were rejected by Saddam regime. If Saddam regime had accepted Turkey's proposals, the war would not have erupted.''
(MS-AÖ) 20.05.2003