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| We are in new era, referendum is behind us, says Iraqi Kurdish PM |
| 2017-12-03 |
| [PRESSTV] Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)'s prime minister says the issue of a unilateral independence referendum is over, adding that the region respects a recent top court ruling that bans any secession from the mainland. "With regards to the referendum, we are in a new era, and this issue is over and we have made our position in the Kurdistan Regional Government clear," Nechirvan Barzani said in a joint presser with French President Emmanuel Macron in Gay Paree on Saturday. He further reaffirmed the region’s "respect for Iraqi federal court ruling" that declared a secession referendum unconstitutional. On November 20, Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court, which is responsible for settling disputes between the central government in Baghdad and the country’s regions, announced it had made a "decision to consider the Kurdish region’s referendum unconstitutional and this ruling is final." It also decided to annul "all the consequences and results" of the plebiscite that was held on September 25 in defiance of strong objection from both Baghdad and Iraq’s neighbors, particularly Iran and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... The plebiscite sparked tensions between the KRG and Baghdad, with the Iraqi army conducting a military campaign to retake the areas overrun by Kurdish snuffies in the course of the fight against the ISIS terrorist group. Following the vote, Baghdad imposed a ban on direct international flights to the Kurdish region and called for a halt to its independent crude oil sales. |
| Posted by:Fred |