Monday, October 16, 2017

US 'not taking sides' in "dispute" between Iraq, KRG in Kirkuk

Kirkuk
Donald Trump on Monday said the United States will not take sides in the clash between Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi government but expressed disappointment the two sides were in conflict.


"We don't like the fact that they're clashing. We're not taking sides," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We've had for many years a very good relationship with the Kurds as you know and we've also been on the side of Iraq, even though we should have never been there in the first place. We should never have been there. But we're not taking sides in that battle."

Meanwhile, the Pentagon declined to blame the Iraqi government for the violence in Kirkuk, and instead urged the central government in Baghdad and KRG to negotiate their differences.

A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Rob Manning, said the confrontation underway in the Iraqi city is a "distractor" to the U.S. goal of destroying the Daesh terrorist group, and that Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga troops should not be "going at each other."
 [dailysabah.com]
 16/10/17
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