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Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
October 23, 2014 Thursday
Germany to send Kurds weapons in northern Iraq
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said Germany would
also "most likely" provide military training to the Kurdish militant
groups
BAKU
Germany will send weapons and "most likely" also provide military
training to Kurdish groups in northern Iraq, German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday.
Steinmeier, who is on an official visit to Azerbaijan, said Germany
had been sending humanitarian aid to the Kurdish groups, but noticed
that it was not enough.
"We will send weapons to fight" the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant, or the ISIL, he said at a joint press conference with
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
"We are also discussing military training for the armed Kurdish
groups," he added.
The German minister said Germany had sent a research commission to
Erbil in northern Iraq and would decide about training of the fighters
upon its return.
He said Germany hoped for positive results in the upcoming meeting of
Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents on October 27 in Paris to discuss
the disputed territory, Nagorno-Karabakh, between the two countries.
Mammadyarov said there was a need to increase the trade volume between
the two countries from the current levels of $3 billion.
Steinmeier also met with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev.
Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994, but it
has been periodically disrupted by cross-border incidents.
October 23, 2014 Thursday
Germany to send Kurds weapons in northern Iraq
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said Germany would
also "most likely" provide military training to the Kurdish militant
groups
BAKU
Germany will send weapons and "most likely" also provide military
training to Kurdish groups in northern Iraq, German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday.
Steinmeier, who is on an official visit to Azerbaijan, said Germany
had been sending humanitarian aid to the Kurdish groups, but noticed
that it was not enough.
"We will send weapons to fight" the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant, or the ISIL, he said at a joint press conference with
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
"We are also discussing military training for the armed Kurdish
groups," he added.
The German minister said Germany had sent a research commission to
Erbil in northern Iraq and would decide about training of the fighters
upon its return.
He said Germany hoped for positive results in the upcoming meeting of
Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents on October 27 in Paris to discuss
the disputed territory, Nagorno-Karabakh, between the two countries.
Mammadyarov said there was a need to increase the trade volume between
the two countries from the current levels of $3 billion.
Steinmeier also met with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev.
Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994, but it
has been periodically disrupted by cross-border incidents.