We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.