The Iraqi Parliament appealed to the Prime Minister Haider Abadi, a request to send army units in Kurdish-controlled province of Kirkuk. About it reports Reuters.
The military needs to take control of the oil fields of the region.
Kirkuk is a disputed territory. The authorities of the Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan in fact, her control and considered Kurdish land, while the official Baghdad claims that Kirkuk was never part of Kurdistan.
25 September in Iraqi Kurdistan held a referendum on independence. The official results will be announced on Thursday, September 28. According to preliminary data of counting the 3.4 million ballots voted for independence 91.83 percent of the voters.
In connection with the independence referendum Moscow called on to solve all disputed issues between Erbil and Baghdad through dialogue.
Iraqi Kurdistan is the unofficial name of the Kurdish Autonomous region in the North and North-East of Iraq, which has the status of a wide autonomy within the country’s legally enshrined in the Constitution. Included in this region’s province of Dahuk, Sulaymaniyah and Erbil are traditionally the place of residence of Kurds. The authorities in the region is the Kurdistan Democratic party led by Massoud Barzani.