Iraq partition 'unacceptable' to US

Iraq partition 'unacceptable' to US

PARTITION of Iraq along sectarian lines is "wholly unacceptable" to the United States, a senior State Department official said overnight, warning of the high cost in human suffering.

"Partition in Iraq could only be achieved at an expense of human suffering and bloodshed and forced dislocation that would be both profound and wholly unacceptable, I believe, to the American people," said Ambassador David Satterfield, the State Department's coordinator of Iraq policy.

"It is wholly unacceptable to this administration," he told a Senate hearing after being asked about partition as an option for stabilising Iraq.

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