Baykal: Ethnic Origins Should Not Be Direct Factors In New Political Structure To Be Formed In Iraq

MADRID - Opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal who attended Socialist International meetings in Madrid, Spain said that ethnic origins should not be direct factors in new political structure which would be formed in Iraq.
Baykal who delivered on Saturday a brief speech at meetings of Socialist International said that after an ''unjust'' war in Iraq, the thing which should be done in Iraq now was to hold general elections democratically.
Underlining that territorial integrity of Iraq should be protected, Baykal said that any ethnic division should not be allowed in Iraq.
Baykal also offered his condolences over explosions in Irbil to Kurdish officials in Iraq.
(EÖ-Öª) 08.02.2004