Baghdad, 14 June 2017 – Following its meeting with Kurdistan’s Independent High Electoral Commission, the Electoral Assistance Office (EAO) of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) seeks to rectify inaccurate news reports that UNAMI will oversee, support or observe the referendum.
UNAMI-EAO wishes to emphasize that it has no intention to be engaged in any way or form as concerns the referendum, to be held on 25 September 2017, as announced through an order by the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s Presidency, No. 106/217, dated 8 June 2017.