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Aktuelles

March 12, 2015

President Barzani and Deputy Prime Minister Talabani welcome Turkey’s Minister of Defence

On Thursday, 5 March 2015, Minister of National Defence of Turkey İsmet Yılmaz was welcomed in Erbil by the President of the Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani. At both meetings Yılmaz reiterated the importance of the ongoing cooperation between Turkey
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Aktuelles

March 6, 2015

Prime Minister Barzani visits Rome and the Vatican

In the past week, Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and an accompanying delegation visited Rome and the Vatican and was received by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, His Holiness Pope Francis, and the Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. In his meeting with Prime Minister Renzi, Prime Minister Barzani expressed…
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Aktuelles

February 27, 2015

Kurdistan Review: Kurdistan has all the necessary ingredients to attract foreign investment

“I believe Kurdistan has all the necessary ingredients to attract foreign investment. I would like to reassure everyone that there will be no place for terrorists to operate in Kurdistan”, President Masoud Barzani told the Kurdistan Review, a publication launched in February.
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Aktuelles

February 24, 2015

Successful clothing drive for refugees and IDPs in the Kurdistan Region

On the weekend of 7 and 8 February, the KRG Representation Austria in cooperation with the Austro-Kurdish Youth-Initiative organized a clothing drive for refugees in the Kurdistan Region. The willingness to donate was huge, in total more than 1000 boxes with clothing, diapers, toys, blankets, and bed sheets were packed and prepared to be transported…
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Aktuelles

February 24, 2015

ORF photo report on the everyday life of refugees in the Kurdistan Region

A photo report of Austrian ORF portays the situation of many refugees in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq: Having fled from the terror militia Islamic State (IS), more than one million people found refuge in the autonomous Kurdistan Region. Despite bordering an area which is under siege by the jihadists, the northern Iraqi region still constitutes a…
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Aktuelles

February 23, 2015

Caritas President Landau on refugee crisis in Kurdistan: “We need to help now”

During a trip to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Michael Landau, President of Caritas Austria, highlighted the humanitarian situation of refugees and IDPs, currently numbering 2.1 million. The enormous influx of refugees is challenging: the Kurdistan Region has seen a 20 percent increase in its population. Caritas underlined the large number of children and stressed…
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Bilaterale Beziehungen

February 21, 2015

President Barzani meets Austrian President Fischer in Vienna

During their meeting on 13 Febuary 2015 the two presidents discussed the current situation in Iraq and the region, and the recent visit of Austrian Foreign Minister Kurz to Erbil.
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Aktuelles

February 20, 2015

Primeminister Barzani speaks at KRG-World Bank conference on Refugees and IDP

In a conference held in Erbil to discuss the results of a joint programme conducted by Kurdistan Regional Government and World Bank on the impact of internally displaced people on the Kurdistan Region’s economy and society, Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani stressed the urgent need
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