BERLIN,— The Speaker of Iraq’s Kurdistan Parliament Yusuf Mohammed Sadiq said on Thursday that he had held talks about concerns over the alleged use of German weapons in internal Kurdish conflict, during a meeting with the country’s officials.

“The matter over the use of Germany’s weapons in the internal conflicts by Peshmerga, and if arming the Peshmerga is the right thing to do, has been discussed in the German Parliament,” Sadiq told NRT.

Sadiq met with the Deputy Speaker of the German Parliament Claudia Roth, and encouraged increased military assistance to Peshmerga forces.

Earlier in March Germany has called on Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) led by Massoud Barzani and his KDP party for clarification regarding the use of German weapons in their fight against the PKK-affiliated Yazidi Shingal Protection Units (YBS).

The clashes have erupted between KDP’s Roj peshmerga forces and the Yazidi YBS, in the Khanasor area located in Sinjar in northwest Iraq on March 3.

In 2016 Germany called on the KDP-controlled Kurdish government to ensure that arms provided by Berlin were only used by Kurdish peshmerga fighting the Islamic State group after German weapons appeared for sale at local black market.

“We sought to ensure German officials that a decision to arm Peshmerga was a right decision to make and that German weapons were very effective in the anti-Daesh battle,” Sadiq continued, referring to Islamic State (IS) by another acronym.

According to Sadiq the German Government has allocated $500 million to reconstruct the areas regained from the ultra-hardline group.

“We asked them to provide a part of the money to rebuild Jalawla, Sinjar and other Kurdish areas,” he continued.

Talks were also held about cash that was illegally deposited in German banks from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, Sadiq added.

The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament, Yusuf Sadiq, made an official visit early on Monday (March 27) to Germany.

Sadiq was accompanied by Sardar Aziz, a senior adviser to the parliament and Dler Mawaty, Deputy Head of the Parliament’s Peshmerga Committee.

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