Germany against Iraq's Kurds Forming Independent State

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Germany is opposed to the formation of an independent state by Iraq's Kurds, who are currently battling Islamic State jihadists with Western help, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday.

"An independent Kurdish state would further destabilize the region and trigger new tensions, maybe with the neighboring Iraqi state as well," he told the Bild newspaper in an interview.

The aim, he added, "was to manage to preserve Iraq's territorial integrity".

Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, is already an autonomous region. Its fighters are being backed by U.S. air power and Western arms deliveries in the fight against Islamic State jihadists.

Steinmeier, who returned from the region on Saturday, welcomed the looming change of government in Baghdad as "maybe the last chance for the unity of the Iraqi state".

Another German news publication, Der Spiegel, cited government sources as saying Germany was ready to back an international military intervention in northern Iraq, but only under the aegis of the United Nations.

So far, no such U.N. authorization has been given, though the Security Council has adopted a resolution aimed at squeezing the Islamic State.

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Missing greatpierro 17 August 2014, 20:03

Kurds have the right to create their own country and govern themselves. It is the experiment of sykes picot that put together people from different background into one country that is behind all this mess in the ME.