Khmer Circle រង្វង់ខ្មែរ: U.S. does not recognize Kurdish independence vote in Iraq: Tillerson

Sunday 1 October 2017

U.S. does not recognize Kurdish independence vote in Iraq: Tillerson

Khmer Circle: Are the Kurds not humans too?; or not quite as human as the Israelis/Jews whose state [Israel] was re-established after two thousand years in 1948 with American approval?...

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Kurdish people protest outside the Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Iraq September 29, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not recognize the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan and urges an end to “threats of reciprocal actions,” U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement on Friday.

“The United States does not recognize the Kurdistan Regional Government’s unilateral referendum held on Monday. The vote and the results lack legitimacy and we continue to support a united, federal, democratic and prosperous Iraq,” Tillerson said.

“We urge calm and an end to vocal recriminations and threats of reciprocal actions,” he added.

Reporting by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by James Dalgleish

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Just a reminder to Khmer at 1:30mn (near the end of the tape)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHU56O2Eb7E; 4:14 am

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