Al-Maliki meets Kurdish delegation

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday met with the Kurdish negotiating delegation to discuss the different contentious issues between the two sides in a positive atmosphere that aims to reach a settlement, a cabinet statement said.The two sides agreed to stay away from issues of conflict and to continue dialogue and to set up committees to solve the problems, according to the statement.The Kurdish delegation arrived yesterday in Baghdad to deliver the message of Kurdish forces to the National Iraqi Alliance on Iraqi developments and outstanding issues between the two sides