FILE PHOTO - Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (not pictured) in Baghdad, Iraq October 23, 2017. REUTERS/Alex Brandon/Pool
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister demanded on Thursday that Kurds declare their independence referendum void, rejecting the Kurdish autonomous region's offer to suspend its independence push to resolve a crisis through talks.
"We won't accept anything but its cancellation and the respect of the Constitution," Haider al-Abadi said in a statement during a visit to Tehran.
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