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Iraqi Kurds Delegation Set to Visit Moscow to Discuss Russian Arms Supplies

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The new deliveries of the Russian weapons to Iraqi Kurdistan will be one of the topics of the Kurdistan delegation visit to Russia in April, a Moscow representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government said Thursday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Ambassador to Iraq Ilya Morgunov discussed arms deliveries to Peshmerga forces with President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani on March 13. The next day, Russia supplied Iraqi Kurds with five ZU-23-2 twin-barreled anti-aircraft autocannons and 20,000 rounds of ammunition for them.

"In early April, the Iraqi Kurdistan's delegation will arrive in Moscow. The supply of arms, which are very important for us, is expected to be on the agenda," Aso Talabani told RIA Novosti.

Russia is hoping that arms deliveries to Iraqi Kurds will help Peshmerga forces as well as Iraqi army to succeed in the fight against Daesh, terrorists, according to the attache of the Russian Consulate General in Iraq's Erbil.

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