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\n\t\t\tMala Bakhtiar, a senior Kurdish official, said a\u00a0Kurdish delegation was visiting Baghdad to sound out Iraqi leaders on the proposal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t“What thing would Baghdad be prepared to offer to the (Kurdish) region” in return, asked Bakhtiar, who is the executive secretary of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Politburo.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn the economic side, the central government in Baghdad should be ready to help the Kurds overcome a financial crisis and settle debts owed by their government, Bakhtiar said in\u00a0the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe estimated the debt at 10 to 12 billion dollars, nearly equal to the annual budget of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which owes\u00a0to public contractors and civil servants and peshmerga fighters, whose salaries have not been paid in full for several months.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBaghdad stopped payments from the Iraqi federal budget to the KRG in 2014. The stoppage happened after the Kurds began exporting oil independently from Baghdad, via a pipeline, to Turkey.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAccording to the Kurdish official, at the political level, Baghdad should show commitment to settling\u00a0the issue of disputed regions such as the oil-rich area of Kirkuk, where Arab and Turkmen communities also live.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Kurdish delegation would then convey the proposals to Kurdish political parties to make a decision on whether they are good enough to justify a postponement of the vote, Bakhtiar said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe official, however, highlighted the Kurdish right to hold the vote at a later date. “We don’t accept to postpone the referendum with nothing in return and without fixing another time to hold it.”<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tMasoud Barzani, the KRG president, announced in a message posted on Twitter in June that the northern territory would hold an independence referendum on September 25 not only in the three provinces that make up the Kurdish region, but also in the areas that were a bone of contention between the Kurdistan region and the central government.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAfter the announcement, the Iraqi government issued a statement in response, saying it would reject any unilateral move by Kurdish authorities to press for independence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on June 13 that the Kurdish minority’s decision to hold an independence referendum was\u00a0untimely.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t“Every part of Iraq has aspirations and has a dream, and we respect that, even if we disagree with it. We live in one homeland and they are our partners,” Abadi said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIran, Turkey and Syria oppose the idea of an independent Kurdistan. In June, Tehran expressed opposition to a \u201cunilateral\u201d scheme, underlining the importance of maintaining the integrity and stability of Iraq and insisting that the Kurdistan region is part of the majority Arab country.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTurkey censured efforts to establish an independent Kurdistan as “a grave mistake.”\u00a0Ankara said the potential of creating of an independent Kurdish state in its backyard would further embolden Turkey\u2019s homegrown Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) militants toward\u00a0an even stiffer confrontation with the government.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSeveral other countries in the region are concerned that such a referendum could ignite a fresh conflict with Baghdad and possibly neighboring countries, diverting attention from the ongoing war against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

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