Spokesman for the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq, Cemal Abdullah, said that such an agreement should obtain the approval all parties involved.
“In matters that concern everyone, all parties should sit at the table, not one side. One party signs a deal and we do not know even the content,”
Abdullah told privatye television station NTV.
He stressed that any agreement required the approval of regional constitutional bodies and the parliament for the Kurdish area.
“We will not implement any agreement in which we were not involved, were not addressed and have not discussed and would not allow its implementation,” he said.
Cebber Yaver, spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerge defence force, said that an agreement that was not ratified would not be recognised.
The deputy chairman of the Kurdish Parliament, Kermal Kirkuri, said that they would object to the agreement if it included any article that would grant permission to the Turkish army to carry out cross-border operations into northern Iraq.
Baghdad could not grant permission to armies of any country to enter northern Iraq or breach the sovereignty of its regional border without the consent of the Kurdish autonomous administration.
