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On the recordSeptember 5, 2017
The administration has taken a very strong and clear position of requesting that that referendum be delayed on the theory that it could be very destabilizing right now.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine discusses the U.S. administration's stance on delaying the Kurdish referendum.

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