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Kurdistan Parliament’s Presidency on 3 November conveyed their condolences to Omed Khoshnaw, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) parliamentary block, on the passing of his mother, in the following message:

Kurdistan Parliament Secretary Muna Kahveci on 31 October conveyed her condolences on the passing of Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the former governor of Kirkuk, in the following message:

Kurdistan Parliament’s Presidency on 1 November conveyed their condolences on the passing of Mala Fatih Hama Amin Beg, who was a MP in Kurdistan Parliament’s first term,

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 1 November expressed his condolences on the passing of the famous poet Jalali Malakshah, to his family, relatives, and all intellectuals of Kurdistan, in the following message:

The Relations Committee welcomed the German Bundestag's decision to extend Germany's military mandate in Kurdistan and Iraq until 2022; other committees looked into the work of Parliament's branch offices, and the Kurdistani parties' strategy in Kirkuk for the Iraqi elections. 

"I received the sad news of the passing of Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the well-known politician whose life’s work and cause was the rights of our people. As the Governor of Kirkuk, under his administration Kirkuk enjoyed a golden period of security and urban development."

Committees will ask the Interior Ministry to explain the arrest of journalist Sherwan Sherwani; ask the Finance Ministry about its agricultural loans policy; look into exhumation of Yazidi victims' mass graves, and interior forces' retirement.

"Dr. Najmaldin Karim was always a true defender of the people of Kurdistan. He struggled for Kurdistan from his youth in Kirkuk, he participated in the Aylul Revolution with Mala Mustafa Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan liberation movement...his stand on relinking Kirkuk to Kurdistan and standing against the occupation will go down in history."

"We reject disrespect of the Prophet of Islam and the messengers of other religions. Kurdistan is proud of our majority of Muslims, our diverse religious communities’ peaceful coexistence, and the constitutional institutions that are the protectors of our coexistence."

"We hope that this occasion is an opportunity to deepen the spirit of forgiveness and peaceful coexistence between Muslims and other religions and to end extremism, sectarianism, conflict, and defamation."