Qubad Talabani, the head of the Kurdistan Coalition in the Iraqi parliamentary elections, stated in remarks on Friday, October 1, that "The solution to most of the problems of the Kurdistan region is in Baghdad."
A senior member of the Movement for Change (Gorran) in the Kurdistan Region said that no one in the Kurdistan Region exerts as much pressure and sympathy for the integration of Peshmerga forces as the United States and the international coalition.