Iraq should not be sold arms before vowing to not use them against Kurdistan - Barzani
MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Iraqi Kurdistan does not object to Iraq importing weapons on condition that they are not used in domestic conflicts, the autonomous region's leader said.
"We demand that any country that supplies armaments to Iraq set the condition that such weapons never be used against people within the country, that they never be used in internal conflicts, because we have apprehensions about that," Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani told the Voice of Russia radio station when asked what he thought of Russian arms sales to Baghdad.
Barzani praised Russian weapons. "We've spent our entire life with the Kalashnikov rifle. The Kalashnikov is the best weapon for infantry," he said.
"We are willing to pay for" weapons that Russia may offer to Kurdistan, he said.