On inaccurate news reports related to UNAMI role as concerns the referendum as announced through an order of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s Presidency [EN/AR/KU]

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.

For more information, please contact: Mr. Samir Ghattas, Director of Public Information/Spokesperson United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, Phone: +964 790 193 1281, Email: ghattass@un.org or the UNAMI Public Information Office: unami-information@un.org