Kurds Deputy PM Calls for Decentralized Iraq and Removal of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

Please consider Kurds’ Deputy PM Talabani Calls for Decentralized Iraq Iraq and its foreign backers must abandon a centralised system of governance if the country is to survive, Iraqi Kurdistan’s deputy prime minister has said, warning that his semi-autonomous region would gain de facto independence if the slide into chaos continues.“We have to get our minds off of this notion that a strong central government can govern this country, because it can’t,†he [Qubad Talabani] told the Financial Times in an interview. “We’re past that. We tried that.

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Kurds Deputy PM Calls for Decentralized Iraq and Removal of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki