What Iraq's Kurds think of the Kurdish referendum
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Channel: Al Arabiya English · 2017 · News & Politics
Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani rejected Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit’s request to postpone the independence referendum scheduled for September 25. The Arab League also requested the Kurds to hold dialogue with Baghdad before the referendum is held but Barzani said a delegation from Kurdistan will visit Baghdad after the referendum and not before it. The Arab League chief had arrived in Erbil from Baghdad to address the referendum which stirred problems between Kurdistan’s region and Baghdad. Meanwhile, Iraqi government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told Al-Hadath, Al Arabiya's sister channel, that Baghdad informed Erbil of the importance of maintaining Iraq’s unity and of postponing the referendum until the war with ISIS ends as then it will be possible to negotiate instead of creating tensions and threatening security. ___________________________ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alarabiya.english Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Follow us on Instagram: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Like us on Google+: https://goo.gl/L5Nqcx Al Arabiya English website: https://english.alarabiya.net/ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://goo.gl/fQ0RkI ___________________________ The English site of the Arab world's leading news channel
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