Implementation Of Resolution 2576 (2021): Report Of The Secretary-General≪


34. During the reporting period, the Ministry of Defence of Turkey reported ongoing operations against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq. In identical letters dated 4 November 2021 addressed to the President of the Security Council and to me (S/2021/927), the Permanent Representative of Iraq drew attention “to the fact that these violations of the sovereignty of Iraq that Turkey committed were contrary to the principles of good-neighbourliness and violated the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law”. In the same letters, the Government of Iraq reiterated its willingness to cooperate with Turkey with a view to “finding common ground and arriving at peaceful solutions”. In a letter da ted 8 October 2021 addressed to the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Permanent Representative of Turkey noted that Turkey had been exercising its “inherent right of self-defence, as outlined in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations”, and had been “taking appropriate measures within the context of the responsibility attributed by relevant Security Council resolutions to States Members of the United Nations in the fight against terrorism”, adding that the measures taken by Turkey were “in compliance with its obligations under international law”. 

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