13/9/17

Η Φλάνδρα θα στηρίξει το αποτέλεσμα του δημοψηφίσματος για την ανεξαρτησία του Κουρδιστάν

Flanders will support Kurdish referendum result
The president of the Iraqi Kurdistan was in Brussels this week to meet with Flemish and federal representatives
 ahead of the referendum vote for independence

‘In favour of the right of self-determination’




The government of Flanders will support the people of Iraqi Kurdistan if they choose independence in a referendum to be held in September, minister-president Geert Bourgeois has said. Bourgeois received a delegation from the autonomous region this week in Brussels, including president Masoud Barzani and members of the High Referendum Council.“I am in favour of the right of the self-determination of all the people in the world,” Bourgeois said. “It is the will of the [Kurdish] government to organise this referendum. I think we should respect it. If the majority supports independence, I think we should accept it,” he said.
Flanders has built up strong ties with Iraqi Kurdistan following a visit by Bourgeois and a Flemish delegation to the region in April last year. That visit took in the capital, Erbil, as well as a refugee camp for those fleeing fighting in Iraq and Syria.
Bourgeois then received a Kurdish delegation last August, and in December pledged funding to bring wounded Peshmerga soldiers – the autonomous region’s military force – who are fighting IS to Flanders for treatment.
President Barzani described the meeting this week as “very good”. “We conveyed the message of the people of Kurdistan to our friends here in Belgium,” he said. “There was a good understanding. Their attitude was very friendly. We are grateful for their support.”
Earlier, the Kurdish delegation met with federal home affairs minister Jan Jambon, who echoes Bourgeois’ sentiments. ““Every people in every nation has the right to organise its future, and I think this is a step forward for the future of the Kurds,” he said. “They are to decide on their future, and we will wait for the result.”
Jambon also praised the contribution of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to the liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul after more than three years in the grip of IS. “I told the president that in the fight against terrorism, we are all in the same boat, but some have a more tough job in this boat than others,” he said. “What the Kurdish Peshmerga did in this fight against IS and terrorism has our respect, deep respect, for what they did. “
Photo: Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois meets with Masoud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan
©Courtesy Geert Bourgeois/Twitter
http://www.flanderstoday.eu/politics/flanders-will-support-kurdish-referendum-result

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