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Committees looked at peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians in Koya, visited homes for the elderly and children in Erbil, and decided to visit Duhok prisons and police.

9 November – The Committee on Kurdistani Areas outside the KRG Administrative Area, led by the chair Jiwan Rojbayani (KDP) met with the Minister of Interior, Rebar Ahmed; Khalid Shwani, Minister of the Region for Negotiations with the Iraqi Federal Government; Dana Abdulkarim, the Minister of Housing and Reconstruction; and the General Board for Kurdistani Areas Outside the Region.

From its very beginnings, the Kurdistan Women’s Union had a different perspective, demanded women's rights and reflected the will of strong women. History shows that Kurdistan Women’s Union played an important role in supporting many women leaders and political and social activists.

Kurdistan Parliament's Relations and Diaspora Committee and the UK Parliament's All-Party Group (APPG) on the Kurdistan Region on 5 November met formally for the first time on Zoom. Their aim is to deepen and widen bilateral relations, and to promote the APPG's recommendations to the UK Government on supporting Kurdistan Region.

Intra-Kurdish conflict leads only to destruction, disaster, a weaker Kurdistan Liberation Movement and the loss of young Kurdish lives. Everyone's efforts must be focused on preventing war, and disagreements must be resolved through dialogue. The basic duty of all the political parties in other parts of Kurdistan, if they cannot help the people of Kurdistan Region or the Kurdistan Regional Government to solve the current multiple crises that we face, is not to create problems for them.

Committees last week called for leave for government contract workers with chronically ill or special needs children; suggested more Friday mosque sermons on the dangers of landmines; discussed civil society groups' challenges; and heard the demands of the Teachers Union.

Kurdistan Parliament’s Presidency on 5 November conveyed their condolences on the passing of Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Zain Abidain Khorasani, who was a MP in Kurdistan Parliament’s first ever term and had served as the vice-chair of Parliament’s Endowments and Religious Affairs Committee:

Any attack on Peshmerga forces is regarded as an attack on Kurdistan Region and the Kurdistani people...We reject any attempt to create chaos and fratricidal conflict, and call on the PKK to respect Kurdistan Region's constitutional status, and to stop creating problems for the KRG and the people of Kurdistan Region and attempting to destroy peaceful coexistence, political harmony and unity of the parties.

We condemn the PKK's attacks on Peshmerga forces and call on the PKK to stop continuous violations, attacks and assaults on the territory and people of the Kurdistan Region, and to stop making themselves into a problem for the constitutional status and the people of Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Parliament, as a legitimate constitutional institution represents the will of the Kurdish people and is their political reference, and considers any kind of intra-Kurdish conflict a crime against the highest interests of the people and the land of Kurdistan. Dialogue is the main path to easing tensions and avoiding the possibility of fratricidal war.