President Talabani's comments came as the Iraqi national security advisor said that 30,000 of the foreign troops currently stationed in Iraq will withdraw by mid-2006, although US forces in Baghdad made clear no decisions had been made.
"We don't want British forces forever in Iraq. Within one year -- I think at the end of 2006 -- Iraqi troops will be ready to replace British forces in the south," Mr Talabani told ITV1 television.
Britain’s Defence Secretary John Reid showed no disagreement with Mr Talabani's stance, saying that British troops could begin handing over security duties to Iraqi forces within a year.
"This process of handover to the Iraqis is one which could begin in the course of the coming year," he said. "President Talabani's comments are consistent with our aims," he said.
The future of Australian troops in Iraq is unclear with Prime Minister Howard saying there are no plans to withdraw from the country.
Several hundred Australian military and naval personnel are in the region supporting Japanese engineers and patrolling one of the southern provinces.
Asked whether he was making a commitment about the withdrawal of British forces Mr Talabani replied: "Well, I haven't been in negotiations, but in my opinion and according to my study of the situation I can say that it is the just estimation of the situation...”
About 8,000 British troops based in the southern city of Basra have been in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.
US forces in Iraq currently number just over 150,000 and other coalition forces just under 22,000.
Speaking in Cairo, Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwaffaq Rubaie said that more than 30,000 of the foreign troops currently stationed in Iraq will withdraw by mid-2006.
"By the middle of next year, more than 30,000 foreign troops will pull out of Iraq," Mr Rubaie told reporters after meeting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
"We hope that by the end of the year (2006), more than 60,000 troops from the Multinational Force will have withdrawn, bringing the number of foreign troops under the 100,000 mark in 2007," he added.
However it was not clear on what he was basing his predictions and a US spokesman for coalition forces in Baghdad emphasised that no decisions had been made on troop pullbacks.
$10m reward
Meanwhile US$10 million is still available for information leading to the capture of former Saddam Hussein number two Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri casting doubt on reports of his death.
Saddam's outlawed former ruling Baath party issued a statement Friday saying that Ibrahim, 63 and the most senior member of the ousted regime still at large, had died of cancer.
But the US military is not convinced.
"A reward of up to 10 million dollars remains for information leading to
Al-Duris capture or his gravesite," the military said.
According to the military, a Baathist website that reported his death on Saturday has made false claims in the past.
Another website also claiming links to the Baath party apologised for what it described as the false reporting of Ibrahim’s death and claimed he was still alive, the military added.
Ibrahim "remains the senior ranking fugitive among the failed former regime associates of Saddam," its statement read.
The military reiterated its accusation that Ibrahim had acted as a major bankroller of the insurgency using contacts in Syria.
Coalition officials believe that Ibrahim "still has access to funds that he personally transferred to Syria," money that "was looted from Iraq during the Saddam Hussein reign and is now being used to recruit and finance numerous insurgent attacks in Iraq."
But the military added that it believed he was now a waning influence because of his failing health, a reference to reports that he needs regular blood transfusions for leukaemia.
White House wrong
In Washington the Bush administration has admitted "we were wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
However President Bush's national security adviser rejected assertions that the president manipulated intelligence and misled the American people.
President Bush relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community when he determined that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, said national security adviser Stephen Hadley.
"Turns out, we were wrong," Mr Hadley told the Late Edition program on CNN.
"But I think the point that needs to be emphasised ... allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong."
Republican lawmakers and other officials who appeared on Sunday news shows echoed Bush's speech on Friday, which is Veterans Day, in which he defended his decision to invade Iraq.
Mr Bush said Democrats in Congress had the same intelligence about Iraq, and he argued that many now claiming that the information had been manipulated had supported going to war.
The president also accused his critics of making false charges and playing politics with the war.
Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean rejected the criticism and said, "The truth is, the president misled America when he sent us to war."
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press program, the party chairman disputed Mr Bush's claim that Congress had the same information - the president withheld some intelligence and some caveats about it, Mr Dean said - and that two commissions had found no evidence of pressure being placed on those within the intelligence community .
In fact, Mr Dean said, how the administration handled the intelligence it received has yet to be determined by a Senate committee.
Contending that the president has not been honest about the size of the deficit as well as the war, Mr Dean said, "This is an administration that has a fundamental problem telling the truth."
Mr Hadley said Mr Bush received dissenting views about the accuracy of intelligence and relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community as conveyed by the CIA director.
The national security adviser criticised those who continue to claim that Bush manipulated the intelligence and made misleading statements.