Iraq Supreme Court orders suspension of Kurdistan referendum

  18 September 2017    Read: 1264
Iraq Supreme Court orders suspension of Kurdistan referendum
Iraq’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the suspension of a September 25 referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, to examine whether such a poll would be constitutional, AFP reported.
“The Supreme Court has issued the order to suspend organizing the referendum set for September 25… until it examines the complaints it has received over this plebiscite being unconstitutional,” it said in a statement.

Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani had earlier passed a decision on holding a referendum on independence on September 25. The Iraqi government and parliament called this decision ‘illegal’.

The United States, Germany, France and the United Nations urged Barzani to suspend the referendum.

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