The president of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq has issued a defiant statement to the Iraqi government that there was no going back on autonomous Kurdish rule in the oil city Kirkuk.<br /><br />Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, made the comments at a joint news conference in Erbil with visiting William Hague, British foreign secretary, on Friday.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Erbil. <br /><br />Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe<br />Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish<br />Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera<br />Check our website http://www.aljazeera.com/
