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President Barzani meets French President Hollande in Paris

President Barzani meets French President Hollande in Paris

Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani met with French President François Hollande in Paris on Tuesday. President Hollande welcomed President Barzani’s visit to Paris and reiterated his country’s support for the Kurdistan Region, in particular the peshmerga forces. He praised the role of the peshmerga in taking the fight to the ISIS terrorists. Hollande said France…
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Extensive media coverage on Foreign Minister Kurz’s visit to Kurdistan

Extensive media coverage on Foreign Minister Kurz’s visit to Kurdistan

The visit of Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz to the Kurdistan Region was extensivley covered in the media: all Austrian online and print media reported about the individual stations of his journey. In their news coverage, the numerous Austrian journalists who accompanied Kurz to Kurdistan focused on the Austrian government’s humanitarian aid package worth 1.25 million…
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President Barzani participates at Munich Security Conference

President Barzani participates at Munich Security Conference

Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani visited Munich to participate in the annual Munich Security Conference. On Friday, the President and an accompanying KRG delegation attended the opening ceremony of the Conference and then held bilateral meetings with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.…
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Prime Minister Barzani meets Pope’s envoy to Iraq

Prime Minister Barzani meets Pope’s envoy to Iraq

On Sunday, 18 January 2015, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani received Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, Apostolic Nuncio in Iraq and his accompanying delegation in Erbil. Archbishop Giorgio Lingua said that the Vatican follows the situation in the Kurdistan Region very closely. He conveyed Vatican’s gratitude to the Kurdistan Region
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