On Wednesday, the KRG’s Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs said in a statement that after the Islamic State (IS) attacks on the Kurdistan Region, the Peshmerga forces liberated those areas with their blood.
The Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki called upon the Kurdistan Region this week to withdraw its Peshmerga forces to the borders decided upon during the Governing Council in 2003.
In an interview with an Iranian newspaper in Tehran, Maliki, who served as Iraq's Prime Minister when IS extremists occupied one third of Iraq, said “We believe that every inch of Iraqi soil should be returned to the Federal Government… the liberated areas should be dealt with in accordance to the Constitution.”
In the statement, Ministry of Peshmerga says that “the border Nuri al-Maliki talks about was the front-line between the Peshmerga forces and the former Iraqi regime."
The Ministry said that the Peshmerga forces “draw the map of the Kurdistan Region” with their blood.
“Based on the joint agreement between the Kurdistan Region, Iraq and the US, all the areas liberated by the Peshmerga forces before the start of Mosul operation liberation are non-negotiable,” the statement read.
About the areas that have been liberated during the Mosul operation, the statement said that "only the people of the areas can determine their future through referendum.”
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