Press Release- Iraq FINAL

Iraq has stipulated that the Kurdish Regional Government can maintain its constitutionally stipulated autonomous region if they gradually integrate the Peshmerga into the Iraqi Armed Forces within the next five years while in the mean time we conduct joint operations in the north. We will have a referendum on the status of Kirkuk within a year with international observers to verify the referendum and migration prior to the referendum. Iraq will allow an international observer mission from the United Nations for the northern region to ensure Kurdish human rights. We thank our allies the United States and Turkey for a guarantee of Iraqi unity and we thank Iran for allowing us to solve this issue internally.