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Iraqi PM says Kurdish referendum ‘a thing of the past’, calls for dialogue

Published: 17 Oct 2017 - 07:26 pm | Last Updated: 08 Nov 2021 - 05:19 am
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

Reuters

BAGHDAD:  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday the Kurdish independence referendum held last month in northern Iraq “is finished and has become a thing of the past”.

Addressing a news conference in Baghdad, he called for a dialogue with the Kurdish leadership “under the Constitution”. 

(Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; Editing by Hugh Lawson)