Last week, Abadi spurned a call from US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to send "home" Iranian-backed paramilitary fighters.
A media assistant to Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said Kurdish security forces, known as Peshmerga, had repelled three attacks by Iraqi forces, two in the direction of Fish-Khabur, and one in Perde, on the road linking Kirkuk to the KRG capital Erbil, destroying several tanks and armoured vehicles.
"Council members noted that the federal and regional governments have both expressed willingness to engage in dialogue", said French Ambassador Francois Delattre, who holds this month's council presidency.
The offer was rejected by Abadi's government, which said the independence referendum result must be annulled, rather than merely suspended, as a pre-condition to any talks.
The United States uses the border between Iraq's Kurdish region and Syria to access its Syrian allies, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who are battling IS.
"We won't accept anything but its cancellation and the respect of the constitution", Haider Al Abadi said in a statement during a visit to Tehran.
"With the referendum they tried to break up our territory, they tried to redefine our borders", Al-Abadi said.
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The Kurdish leadership is saying that Iraqi troops have launched "an offensive" against Kurdish fighters near the border with Turkey.
Predominantly Shi'ite Iran and its Sunni rival Saudi Arabia are locked in a proxy war for influence in the Middle East.
The statement from the Kurdish regional government says the Iraqi forces were "using heavy artillery. advancing toward peshmerga positions".
Al-Abadi's announcement comes during a visit to Iran on Thursday. Though the vote was non-binding, it has roiled tensions with the central government and the region.
Abadi has asserted his authority with the defeat of Islamic State in Mosul and the Iraqi army's sweep through Kirkuk and other areas which were held by the Kurds.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is in Iran after recent stops in Turkey and Jordan, and meetings with USA officials and allies eager to pull Baghdad into their political orbit.
Regional issues and bilateral ties are expected to dominate the agenda, as well as the Iraqi Kurds' independence referendum last month that both Baghdad and Tehran have dismissed as illegal. The KDP was immediately threatened with military action by Iraq and pro-government troops and their allies, including mostly Shiite Muslim militias backed by Iran, have easily retaken a number of towns and oil-rich regions claimed by the country's Arab majority.
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