URGENT UN says referendum on territory is illegal

Date of release: 2017/8/16 19:28

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The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, Jan Kubic, described the decision of the Kurdistan region to hold a referendum on separation from Iraq as "illegitimate".
"The United Nations stresses the need to resolve the differences between the region and Baghdad through dialogue and negotiations," Kubic said in a statement to an Iranian agency on Wednesday.
In response to a question on the legal background on which the referendum is based in the Kurdistan region, the UN envoy said that "the referendum in this region is illegal."
"As for the UN vision, the important point it has always made is that any change or initiative must be based on the law," he said, adding that "the United Nations believes that the constitution of Iraq is the only law on which the parties to the conflict must base themselves."
The official stressed that the subject of the referendum did not respond to the Iraqi constitution.
"The United Nations stresses the need to contain the current problems and settle differences through dialogue and peaceful negotiations, and the outcome of the negotiations would be the basis for taking all future decisions," Kubic said.
It is noteworthy that a high-level Kurdish delegation arrived on Monday from the Kurdistan region to the capital Baghdad and conducted a series of meetings with officials in the federal government and political leaders on the referendum on the independence of the region.
All the statements of the meeting pointed to the need to unite Iraq and solve problems between Baghdad and the region through dialogue within the constitutional and legal frameworks.
It seems that the Kurdish delegation did not find in the response to accept the referendum, especially with the existence of international and regional rejection of it.


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