The first US comment on the efforts to form a government of the Territory


US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, urged the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Massoud Barzani to form the Kurdistan Regional Government as soon as possible.

"The Secretary of State (Pompeo) stressed the importance of forming the Kurdistan Regional Government as soon as possible, in response to the aspirations of the people of the Kurdistan region of Iraq," State Department spokesman Robert Paladino told reporters on Thursday.

At the end of October last October, the Electoral Commission in the Kurdistan region, the victory of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani, a large proportion of the official results of parliamentary elections held in late September in the region.

Paladino pointed out that Pompeiro assured Barzani of the United States' determination to continue working with Iraq to destroy the terrorist organization.

Tensions between Baghdad and Erbil worsened after the authorities in the Kurdistan region held a referendum on secession on September 25, 2017, which the Iraqi authorities considered unconstitutional and illegal, despite the vote of 93% of the Kurds in favor of secession.

The federal forces entered the city of Kirkuk to impose security, as announced by former Prime Minister Haider Abadi, in conjunction with the withdrawal of Kurdish Peshmerga forces from them.

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