Kurdistan Democratic Party Leader Massoud Barzani gathered members and a KDP official, Aras Haso Mirhan, announced talks to begin with other regional parties for a referendum on the independence vote.
In Washington for a serious of closed door sessions in May earlier this year, Barzani had said that Kurds will hold a referendum on independence from Iraq but said that "I cannot say if it will be in the next year, or when, but certainly the independent Kurdistan is coming” .
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