Kurdish official: America has failed us and we will review our relations with them

Kurdish official: America has failed us and we will review our relations with them



Thursday, November 9

Alsumaria News / Erbil
accused the Secretary - General of the Movement of Reform and Development Mohammad Baziyani, Thursday, the United States of America to "let down" the territory of Kurdistan after the vote referendum secession last September, noting that all Kurdish political parties in the process of "reviewing its relations" with Washington .

Baziani said in an interview with Alsumaria News that "all Kurdish parties are reviewing the double US position on the just cause of the Kurdish people," adding that "the revision of relations with America is necessary at this stage."

"The Americans have also abandoned the Kurds this time," he said, pointing out that "this is the American people, and they had already abandoned the Kurds in 1975 to the fateful Algiers agreement."

He added that " the consolidation of relations with Russia as an alternative to America is not a solution, and that Russia is the other betrayed the Kurds in 1947 when it allowed for Iran to eliminate the first Kurdish Republic".

"The government of the region made a mistake when it entered into oil contracts with Russia," he said, adding that "this contract with Russia will be at the expense of American and Western companies and may cause political and economic consequences."

Baziani stressed "the need to unite the ranks and the internal solidarity of the people of Kurdistan to overcome the current stage," stressing "the importance of building healthy and balanced relations with all international parties."

He said that "the future of relations between Erbil and Baghdad should not be based on the rule of the majority and the defeated, and there should be understandings because the loser in the end the Iraqi people."

On November 7, 2017 , KDP Political Bureau adviser Aref Rushdi announced that the situation requires reconsidering the Kurdistan region's relations with the United States and other parties, pointing out that it remains silent on the "recent operations".

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