Italian Foreign Minister: “It is Kurds who will decide for a referendum. We don’t want to intervene or have any impact on it.

President Barzani met Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni they touched upon the relations between sides, Peshmerga needs, Kurdish referendum, Baghdad-Erbil relations, the current financial crisis, and economic ties.

Barzani and Gentiloni shed light on the repair of Mosul Dam by an Italian company, after reports suggested the dam might collapse. “Italy will continue supporting Peshmerga forces in IS war,” said Gentiloni to K24.

Regarding the Kurdish referendum, Gentiloni stated, “It is Kurds who will decide for a referendum. We don’t want to intervene or have any impact on it.”