Formation of Regions, constitutional, strengthens Iraq’s Unity, Iraq’s Kurdistan President says

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The President of North Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, has expressed “surprise for warnings by Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, towards efforts to form other Regions in Iraq, rather than Kurdistan Region, saying that “the formation of Regions is a legal and constitutional issue, that strengthens the unity of the Iraqi people, in difference with what Maliki had stated.”   “What is leading Iraq towards abyss is its non-commitment to the Constitution and not the call for the formation of Regions,” Barzani said in a statement, published by the Kurdistan Region’s Presidency on Sunday, copy of which was received by IraqiNews.com news agency.   Noteworthy is that Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had warned in his meeting two days ago with different Iraqi political parties, against “efforts to form other Regions (rather than Kurdistan), saying that “a measure of such type shall lead towards secession and civil war, exposing Iraq’s unity for danger.”   SKH (IT)