Today, the KDP and the PUK, with the support of some EU member states, have forever justified the KDP & PUK authority over the Peshmerga forces & killed the unification of the Peshmerga. What the KRG PM is selling to us as "Peshmerga unification" is only a ministerial decree so that the KDP and PUK Peshmerga will be fully paid by the Ministry of Peshmerga, and in the hope of the US extending its subsidies to the Peshmerga forces. The KRG will now pay the KDP and the PUK militia forces & selling this to the public & intl community as a success story. What the KDP and the PUK have agreed is that the KDP will have its own forces organized under "Zone 1" formerly it was called the 80 Divisions] and the PUK have its own forces organized under "Zone 2" [formerly it was called the 70 Divisions]. The Iraqi Prime Minister has congratuled the Kurdish people and the KRG for this unification. Partly, he most probably does sth similar to fool the intl community in bringing the militias under the control of the state.