Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih of Iraq

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih discusses Iraq's political and security developments.

talk about Kurdish hopes for -- and fears of -- a war in Iraq.

Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said the working group had begun meeting several weeks ago with a mission to ease strains over the disputed city of Kirkuk,www.

Salih said the row was largely resolved after police were given primary responsibility for the town's security.

Salih said the new group, meeting regularly with Maliki, would also seek to end an impasse over the national oil law, a draft of which was passed by the Iraqi cabinet in early 2007.

Salih says that the Provincial Council Election Law is important.

Replying to a question, Salih denies the charges that the Kurds want to secede from Iraq and says: "The Kurds have made the decision to be part of democratic federal Iraq and to be among the builders of this state.

Salih says that all the Kurdish leaders are now in Baghdad to resolve this issue.

In an interview with the French news agency, AFP, Salih said there are "vicious and dangerous.

Barham Salih is Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq.

Twice elected to parliament as a member of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan list, the second largest parliamentary bloc, Salih has served in every Iraqi government since June 2004.

Before joining the Iraqi government, Salih was Prime Minister of the Kurdistan regional government in Sulaimani for three years.

A rushed transcript of the interview with Deputy Prime Minister Salih is below.

Salih said in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat in London while on a state visit to the UK with the regional President of Kurdistan in Iraq, Mas'ud Barzani, that the problem of corruption in Iraq still exists and described it as being a cancer that is attacking the Iraqi political body.

Salih is well known for his statement, while serving as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister in Iyad Allawi's government, that corruption in Iraq presents a problem as significant as that of terrorism.

Salih said that the identity card would use biometrical data and the personal identification for each Iraqi.

attempt by a radical Islamist group.

telephone call he received just seconds before stepping out the door.

Salih is the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government and a senior leader of the "Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

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Barham Salih, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Visits Al Mutanabi Street Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih was on Al Mutanabi Street to unveil the start of the 180 day rehabilitation project to rebuild the historical Al Mutanabi Book Market.

Salih came to tell the people that they should be proud to be in Baghdad and proud to live in the oldest intellectual area of the city.

The Baghdad people are the example, the potential," Salih said to a crowd of onlookers.

Barham Salih, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Visits Al Mutanabi StreetAs reported by Multi National Forces-Iraq, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih was on Al Mutanabi Street to unveil the start of the 180 day rehabilitation project to rebuild the historical Al Mutanabi Book Market.

It's an exhausting and complicated process, but Iraq is taking steps to open up its oil and revenue interactions to the world's watchdogs.

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establishment of a regulatory framework.

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih has warned against turning disagreements within Iraq's multi-faction government into an Arab-Kurdish conflict.

In an interview with the French news agency, AFP, Salih said there are.

Prime Minister Salih is experiencing technical difficulties.

of an Iraqi national project and part of the new Iraqi state.

was not signed, Salih says that this idea was not proposed at all.

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