Bush opposes three-way partition of Iraq: TV interview

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said in a television interview that he opposed dividing Iraq into a Kurdish, a Shiite and a Sunni region, which he said would create even more chaos.

"Three autonomous regions will create not only a situation where Sunnis and Sunni nations and Sunni radicals will be competing against Shia radicals. The Kurds will then create problems for Turkey and Syria," he said in an interview with Fox News.

"And you have got a bigger mess than we have at this point in time, which I believe is going to be solved."

The Iraqi parliament on October 11 approved a law which would allow the country's 18 provinces to hold referendums to merge into larger federal regions with a measure of self-government.

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