Kurdish leader reveals the proposal of the Great Powers in return for postponing the referendum of Kurdistan
Kurdish leader reveals the proposal of the Great Powers in return for postponing the referendum of Kurdistan
Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 11:20 am
Baghdad / Sky Press
The Socialist Party of Kurdistan (PUK) Secretary General Mohammad Haji Mahmoud revealed on Saturday the proposal of the great powers of the Kurds in return for postponing the referendum, pointing out that these countries will solve the problems between the center and the region.
“The United States, Britain, France and the United Nations offered to discuss the situation of the region, including the referendum on independence in the United Nations, in return for the Kurdish leadership to postpone the referendum two years,” said Mahmoud, close to the outgoing Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani.
He added that “the American envoy to the international coalition against the urging of Bret McGuck, and the ambassadors of the United States, Britain and France and the head of the United Nations Mission in Iraq, presented this offer to Barzani the day before yesterday,” pointing out that “they stressed that if rejected, the region must bear the consequences.”
He added that “the representatives of these countries indicated that the meeting of the United Nations will discuss the file of Iraq, including the Kurdistan region and the referendum of independence, and that the three countries and the United Nations to resolve the existing problems between the region and the federal government.”
The Kurdistan Regional Parliament voted unanimously Friday to hold the referendum on September 25.
Barzani renewed his rejection of “postponement” of the referendum as a means to achieve independence and not a target, while calling on the people to “resistance” and the trend towards the referendum, confirmed that “did not receive” alternative to today
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