(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke over the phone Wednesday with Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani and in person with members of Barzani's delegation, including Chief-of-Staff Fuad Hussein, to discuss the crisis in Iraq and the role that Kurds have to play
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters that Kerry emphasized to Barzani, "the urgency of their participation in the government formation process, the important role the Kurds played moving forward and also emphasized that the focus should be on the existential threats that they all face." Kerry reiterated to Hussein, "The need for their full participation to move the process forward, to forge an inclusive government that takes into account the rights, aspirations and legitimate concerns of Iraq's communities." Psaki further added, "That formation of inclusive government in Iraq was vital to uniting the Iraqi people and ridding the nation of the threat from ISIL [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant], including in the Kurdish region"
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