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UK does not support referendum being held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
The United Kingdom does not support the referendum held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq and continues to back the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq, underlined Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who insisted any referendum should be agreed with the Government of Iraq. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesof course, the “self-determination” principle only applies to the pirates who usurped the malvinas. the kurds? the chagos islanders? nope, those should either “dialogue” with the Iraq central government or make way for a US airbase...
Sep 27th, 2017 - 11:38 pm - Link - Report abuse -3I did not realise that the pirate Captain Kidd ever visited the Falklands
Sep 28th, 2017 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse +1Another fool who has fallen for Argentine fairy tails about the mythical Malvinas.
Bill Kidd fae Dundee?
Sep 28th, 2017 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0The very one!
Sep 28th, 2017 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Haha. The Central American nation Belize really was founded by pirates though, and according to one theory the name of the country comes from a mispronounced evolution of the name of Captain Peter Wallace, a Scottish pirate who settled near the Belize river in 1638.
Sep 28th, 2017 - 03:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can't help thinking the Kurds should have their own country. Most of the countries in the region are artificial constructs anyway, and the Kurds seem to be some of the saner residents of the Middle East, so they might have a better chance of forming a stable and successful nation. But since they have no access to the coast for trading and are surrounded by other countries that also have sizeable Kurdish minorities, their chances don't look too good.
Give the Kurds their Independence and Whey!
Sep 28th, 2017 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
Sep 29th, 2017 - 03:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0HIPOCRESÍA BRITÁNICA.......KURDOS NO !!.....ISLEÑOS MALVINAS SÍ !!!....ISLEÑOS CHAGOS NO !!!.....CINICOS !!!
Sep 29th, 2017 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ask little miss Muffet.
Sep 29th, 2017 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Troneas and Neuquino29
Sep 29th, 2017 - 09:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, they're hypocrites. All countries are. The UN only allows self-determination for colonies, not for the Kurds, not for the Chagos Islanders, not Catalonia, not the Crimea.
Do you support self-determination for the Kurds?
Why is neuquino29 SHOUTING.
Sep 30th, 2017 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am afraid self - determination for the Kurds is the long game. Turkey would not stand for it.
Their President has ideas about a new Ottoman Empire. Any possible diminution or threat to Turkish territory abutting a new Kurdish State would mean them invading this state and subjugating it under Turkish control.
Would the UN recognise this new Kurdish state...in a word NO.
Russia and China would veto it ...think Tibet and Chechnya
Yeah, unfortunately you are probably right. Turkey has their own separatist Kurdish region, they won't want them being encouraged by what happens next door. So do all their other neighbours. The Kurds could fight the Iraqi government to try to make them agree to it, but the US will be pretty pissed off if they do, they want both to be fighting IS.
Sep 30th, 2017 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Russia are huge hypocrites as well, since they had the Crimea unilaterally declare independence and then hold a referendum to join Russia, but they're still not going to recognise an independent Kurdistan.
It's funny that the countries in Latin America, who all declared independence without the agreement of Spain and Portugal, almost all refuse to recognise the right of others to do the same.
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