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The Finance and Economic Affairs committee elect a new chair, Mr. Ziyad Jabbar (PUK), the municipalities committee send the bill on illegally occupied or taken land to Parliament's Presidency for its second reading. The agriculture and irrigation committee held a joint meeting with the Iraqi Council of Representatives' respective committee and discussed paying farmers for their wheat production. 

Charmo public University of Chamchamal and the Higher Education Committee discussed the benefits and drawbacks of implementing the Bologna Process. The Higher Education committee also decided to meet the ministry to look into Nur, Hadba and Kitab private universities in Kurdistani areas outside the KRG administrative area, which are not yet recognized by the Kurdistan Regional Government. 

The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Dr. Rewas Faiq and Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 6 October wrote to the family of Mrs. Ahang Aref, a former MP, to express their condolences on her passing. Mrs. Aref served in the Kurdistan Parliament’s Third Term, from 2009 to 2012.

Kurdistan Parliament's culture committee in a statement conveyed their condolences on the passing of Dr. Izzadin Mustafa Rasoul, one of the greatest academics and researchers of Kurdish history and literature. The Relations and Kurdish Diaspora Committee discussed with Turkey's Consul General the problems that Kurdistan's citizens face at airports and land borders. 

Kurdistan has lost a great academic, historian and researcher of Kurdish literature and history. Our sincere condolences go out to Dr. Izzadin’s family and friends, and to the intellectual community in Kurdistan. He was one of our finest.

On behalf of the Kurdistan Parliament, we convey our best wishes to the Mir, to the spiritual and religious community and to all the Yazidi Kurds in Kurdistan Region, Iraq and around the world on the holy Jamayi festival.

Kurdistan Parliament's energy committee had a meeting to work on the bill to adopt Iraqi Law No. 9 of 2006 on the import and sale of petroleum products. The health committee met Erbil International Airport officials to discuss the problems with the process and quality control of importing medicines. 

Parliament's committees this week met with Ibrahim Khalil customs and quality control officials; decided to submit a report to Parliament's Presidency on the problems in healthcare seen on fact-finding visits to Duhok, Koya and Erbil; met with workers' representatives of the Communist Party; and visited social care departments in Koya. They also pledged to seek help for families of Kurdish Syrian forces killed fighting alongside the Peshmerga in the war against ISIS.   

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr. Rewaz Faiq on 2nd October welcomed Mr. Toby Fyfe, CEO of the Canadian independent NGO for improving governance, the Institute of Governance. Mr. Fyfe said that their institute is working to strengthen fiscal federalism and decentralisation, and support plans for a law on general loans in Iraq.

Speaker Dr. Rewaz Faiq on 2nd October welcomed the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Head of the Middle East Department, Mr. Petr Hladik, with the Czech Consul General to the Kurdistan Region. Dr. Faiq said that it is important for the Kurdistan Region that foreign countries have diplomatic offices and consulates here. “We thank all the countries that have consulates in Erbil, as their presence has great importance for us,” she added.