WEST KURDISTAN SYRIA MESOP : PUTIN ON THE LEAD – A CLEAR “NO” TO INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN IN IRAQ – SYRIA – TURKEY

 MESOP : PUTIN ON THE LEAD – A CLEAR “NO” TO INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN IN IRAQ – SYRIA – TURKEY

Russia is against Iraq’s division: Lavrov – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s remarks regarding the partitioning of Iraq. The top diplomat called the comments “highly irresponsible,” and that Moscow would never agree to such “state structure manipulation.”

“We would never adopt a position voiced without any constraint by… Biden, who said that Iraq should be split into Shia and Sunni parts and that the Kurds should be given what they want,” Lavrov said on Monday while addressing the Terra Scientia International Youth Forum Moscow, reported Russia Today. “We won’t commit to such things, telling Sunnis to get out today and urging Shias to move on next time… We believe that Iraqis — Shia, Sunnis and Kurds — should decide for themselves how to live together,” he added.In a May 2006 New York Times article — co-written with Leslie Gelb — Biden suggested that there should be a federalization of Iraq, with the establishment of autonomous regions for Kurds, Shia and Sunnis. www.mesop.de