The spread of unrest throughout the Middle East illustrates the importance of maintaining current sovereign borders. Iraq is committed to working with regional partners to prevent the disintegration of sovereign territories.
Given the democratic aspirations spreading through the region, the Iraqi national government empathizes with northern Iraqis in their protests and criticisms of the Kurdistan regional government. These democratic aspirations are in line with the 2005 Iraqi Constitution that guarantees basic rights of organized protests. The KRGs recent violence is a violation of Iraqi citizen?s rights and their further calls for secession would invalidate the constitution and therefore invalidate Article 140, threatening Kurdistan?s influential standing within Iraqi?s national government. Furthermore, an abrogation of the constitution is unproductive and undemocratic.
We concur with Syria that recognition of an independent Kurdistan or defacto recognition through non-federally approved economic agreements is an action the Iraqi government considers a flagrant violation of Iraqi sovereignty and will establish a destabilizing secessionist precedent.
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