The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres met with Kurdistan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.
A United Nations statement released after the meeting said the meeting involved discussions on the upcoming referendum, the national reconciliation process and the passing of a UN Security Council resolution to hold ISIS accountable for its crimes.
The meeting took place after Kurdistan’s president Masoud Barzani addressed a 40,000 rally on Friday to mark the end of the official referendum campaign reports ruddaw.net.
Simultaneously, the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary-General for Iraq Jan Kubis met with Masoud Barzani to hold similar discussions.