Committees formed to conduct PUK, KDP negotiations: spokesman

<p style="text-align:left">Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) spokesperson Latif Sheikh Omar said Sunday, March 10, several committees had been formed in order to conduct negotiations with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

The PUK has not said whether it would take the position of parliament speaker and that it had not yet asked for any ministerial positions, he added.
During a press conference following a meeting of the PUK political bureau, Sheikh Omar said that several decisions had been made in the course of the meeting, NRT reported.
The PUK spokesperson also said that
Earlier on Sunday, KDP spokesperson Mahmood Mohammad said that the KDP had not yet talked with the PUK about how to distribute ministerial positions.
&ldquo;The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has finished its preparations for joining the new government cabinet,&rdquo; he said, adding that the KDP and the PUK are scheduled to meet in the coming days.
On Saturday, PUK lawmaker in the Kurdistan parliament Luqman Wardi said that his party would nominate either Rewaz Fayaq and Begard Talabani for speaker, but that it had not yet decided.
It was unclear if that issue had been resolved.
The KDP and the PUK signed an agreement March 4 that appeared to revive the government formation process.
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