‘Catastrophic’: Egypt’s Sisi warns Iraqi Kurd secession would splinter Mideast
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Catastrophic: Egypts Sisi warns Iraqi Kurd secession would splinter Mideast
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 7, 2014 9:56 EDT
Egypts President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned the independence of Iraqs Kurdish region would be catastrophic and cause the Middle East to splinter along ethnic and religious lines, newspapers reported Monday.
A Sunni militant offensive that drove soldiers out of northern Iraq last month has emboldened leaders of the countrys three-province Kurdish region to push for an independence referendum.
But Sisi said such a move would be a disaster for the region.
The referendum currently demanded by Kurds is nothing
but the catastrophic beginning of the division of Iraq into small rival states, starting with a Kurdish state that will grow to include lands in Syria on which Kurds are living, Sisi told Egyptian newspapers.