Sami Abdurrahman, the Kurdistan Democratic Party deputy prime minister, told AFP on 20 November that "there is a considerable improvement in our relations with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)," according to AFP of 20 November. But despite this improvement in ties between the two, Abdurrahman said that "important problems remain." And as a result, "there is still a long way to go to set up a joint administration." Joint elections were held in 1992, which resulted in a 50-50 ...