BRUSSELS: The European Union has given a green light to individual EU governments to supply arms and ammunition to Iraqi Kurds battling Islamic State insurgents, provided they had the consent of authorities in Baghdad.
EU foreign ministers holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on the Iraq and Ukraine crises welcomed the decision by several EU governments to send weapons in response to an appeal by Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani.
France and the Czech Republic have said they will send weapons to the Kurds. Britain and the Netherlands have said they would consider doing so. Some EU members such as Sweden and Austria said they would not supply weapons, but the EU avoided a repetition of the dispute that split the 28-nation bloc last year over whether to arm Syrian opposition
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