Rudaw clarification on a news report

A breaking news report aired by Rudaw correspondent said that in a meeting between Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani and Francois Hollande the French president had expressed support for the independence of the Kurdistan Region and that he had asked Barzani to set a date to declare independence.
Rudaw Media Network deemed it necessary to provide a clarification and correction on this news report and say that it was the result of a wrong conveyance of the meeting from the sources. Therefore we saw it as necessary to correct this mistake. The information was neither provided in the joint interview which was attended by Rudaw.
For this reason we apologize to the readers, viewers and listeners of Rudaw.