Massoud Barzani claims era of Sykes-Picot is over and a new international agreement is needed for the Middle East The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish north has called on global leaders to acknowledge that the Sykes-Picot pact that led to the boundaries of the contemporary Middle East has failed,and urged them to broker a new deal paving the way for a Kurdish state.
Masoud Barzani, who has led the troubled country’s Kurds for the past decade, or said the international community had started to accept that Iraq and Syria in particular would never again be unified and that “compulsory co-existence” in the region had been proven inaccurate.
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Source: theguardian.com