BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt met with Kurdish officials Sunday and Monday in northern Iraq, according to a PSP statement.

“The head of the National Struggle Front [Jumblatt] is on a visit to Iraqi Kurdistan. He had talks last night with the head of the province, President Massoud Barzani,” the statement said.

Jumblatt and Barzani discussed bilateral ties between the PSP and the Kurdistan Democratic Party “given the political relations between the two parties that go back to the 70s between the martyr Kamal Jumblatt and Mullah Mustapha Barzani.”

Jumblatt also met Monday with head of the National Security Council Masrour Barzani and is scheduled to meet the head of the provincial government Prime Minister Barham Salih.