Today’s meeting between Kurdistan’s Authority – Opposition won’t be decisive, political analyst says

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The five-party meeting, held in Arbil city on Saturday, between the Kurdistan Authority and the Opposition won’t be decisive, the Kurdish Political Analyst, Jotiar Adel said, pointing out to the “weakness of trust between both sides.”   “It is difficult to say that today’s meeting shall be decisive to settle all differences,” Adel told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that “the meeting would take the course of the size of commitment by the promises, given by one side towards those given by the other side,” Adel told IraqiNews.com news agency.   “The current existing problem is stemmed from the weakness of trust among those parties to settle the problems facing the ( Kurdistan ) Region, including the issue of administrative corruption and the isolation of any party from the government,” he added.   The Five-Party meeting began at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Parliament in Arbil on Saturday between the forces of Authority in Kurdistan Region and the Opposition forces.   The meeting, that comprised the two ruling parties in Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and the three Kurdish opposition parties, the Goran (Change) Movement, the Kurdistan Islamic Union and the Islamic Group.   The Spokesman for the Goran (Change) Movement, Mohammed Towfiq, told IraqiNews.com that a five-party meeting for the main political parties in Kurdistan , would be held on Saturday, to achieve an agreement about the conditions in Kurdistan Region.   Noteworthy is that the said three Kurdish opposition parties had presented a 22-point project for political reforms to the Kurdistan government and had carried out dialogues with the two said government parties, but their talks had been adjourned due to the spread of Kurdish security and Peshmerga forces inside Sulaimaniya city and its close townships, that led to the ending by force of the demonstrations and sit-in meetings that continued for 62 days, thing that pushed the situation in the Region towards further escalation.   SKH (FT)       525