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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi President Fuad Masum arrived in the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil on Monday ahead of meetings with Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani and other party leaders. It is expected they will discuss recent events in Iraq and the question of the return of Kurdish MPs to Baghdad.The Kurdish Iraqi President Masum arrived in the Kurdistan Region through Erbil International Airport, said a Rudaw reporter at the airport. His visit has been confirmed by a source in his office."Today the president [returned] to the Kurdistan Region and tomorrow he will meet the Kurdistan Region president about the political situation in Iraq and the question of the return of Kurdish MPs to Baghdad," a source from the Iraqi president’s office revealed to Rudaw.Earlier this month the speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim Jabouri also visited the region to discuss the possible return of Kurdish MPs to Baghdad after they left the city when angry protesters stormed the parliament building late last month. Kurdish MPs rejected Jabouri’s attempts to convince them to return.Kurdish MPs have also rejected a similar call to return to Baghdad from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.The source within the president’s office also revealed that Masum is scheduled to meet Mohammed Faraj, leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (Yakgrtu), and Ali Bapir, emir of the Kurdistan Islamic League (Komal).Masum is also expected to visit Sulaimani to meet with the Gorran Movement leader Nawshirwan Mustafa and his own Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party's top officials.