{"id":834,"date":"2017-09-24T18:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/iraq-does-not-allow-creation-of-ethnic-govt-in-country-abadi\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T18:17:09","slug":"iraq-does-not-allow-creation-of-ethnic-govt-in-country-abadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/iraq-does-not-allow-creation-of-ethnic-govt-in-country-abadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq does not allow creation of ethnic govt. in country: Abadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tThe Iraqi premier made the remarks in a televised address on Sunday, a day before the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), led by Massoud Barzani, is to hold a contentious plebiscite on independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbadi also vowed that the Iraqi leaders would not allow the Arab country to return to \u201cdark times\u201d\u00a0of the past, promising that he would also take the \u201cnecessary measures\u201d to protect the unity of Iraq.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\u201cTaking a unilateral decision, which can affect the unity of Iraq and its security\u00a0and the security of the region, through a referendum on separation, is unconstitutional and against civil peace. We will take the necessary measures to preserve the unity of the country,” the Iraqi prime minister said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\t\t\tAbadi also stated\u00a0that Baghdad would not \u201cabandon\u201d the Kurdish citizens, saying,\u00a0\u201cIraq will remain for all Iraqis. We will not allow it to become a possession of one or the other, and we will not permit anyone to play with Iraq and not pay the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe planned referendum has raised fears of a fresh conflict in the region, which is trying to emerge from years of a campaign of death and destruction by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe international community and the regional countries alike are strongly opposed to the referendum, saying the partitioning of Iraq could touch off a fresh bout of violence across\u00a0the region.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAbadi also criticized the Kurdish leaders for taking some 25 percent of the revenues that Iraq raises through exporting crude oil, saying they had not even paid salaries to employees and workers in the Kurdish region despite their hefty oil revenues.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Iraqi prime minister added that Kurdistan\u2019s problems were mostly of a domestic nature\u00a0and the situation in that region would deteriorate\u00a0as a result of the wrong and unwise decisions of its leaders.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBarzani: Partnership with Baghdad has failed<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEarlier on Sunday, Barzani said at a press conference in Erbil that his people\u2019s partnership with the central government in Baghdad was over, calling on \u201call Kurds\u201d to go to the polls \u201cin peace\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThe partnership with Baghdad has failed and we will not return to it. We have reached the conclusion that independence will allow us not to repeat past tragedies,\u201d Barzani said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\t\t\tThe Kurdish leader further stated that the plebiscite was just the first stage in the effort made by the Kurdistan region to express its opinion, adding, \u201cAfter that, a long process will begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cThe referendum is not for defining borders or imposing a\u00a0fait accompli<\/em>. We want a dialogue with Baghdad to resolve the problems, and the dialogue can last one or two years,\u201d Barzani added, in reference to disputed zones such as oil-rich Kirkuk province.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tKirkuk is not one of the three provinces that have made up the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq since 2003. However, Kurdish militants used a vacuum created when government troops were fighting against Daesh to overtake city of Kirkuk.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe United States has already expressed its opposition to the referendum, arguing that it would weaken the joint Arab-Kurdish military operations that have managed to make Daesh retreat in both Iraq and neighboring Syria.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe White House has also warned that holding the vote in \u201cdisputed areas\u201d would be \u201cprovocative and destabilizing,\u201d urging\u00a0leaders of the Kurdistan region to call off the referendum and begin serious and sustained negotiations with Baghdad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn a statement on September 18, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged Iraq\u2019s Kurdish leaders to scrap the vote, saying it would undermine the ongoing battle in the Arab country against Daesh.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIran has also announced that it is opposed to the\u00a0\u201cunilateral\u201d scheme for the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan, underlining the importance of maintaining the integrity and stability of Iraq and insisting that the Kurdistan region is\u00a0part of the majority Arab country.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEarlier on Sunday, Iran also closed\u00a0its airspace to all flights to and from the Kurdish region at the request of the Iraqi government.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn September 16, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on international affairs, expressed the Islamic Republic\u2019s opposition to the referendum, warning that separatist moves in the region would ultimately serve the interests of the US and the Israeli regime.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cThe Islamic Republic of Iran opposes any move either knowingly or unknowingly towards independence of one part of Iraq or any other country in the region,\u201d Velayati added.<\/p>\n

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