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.
Committees News
Peshmerga Affairs Committee’s statement on PKK’s attack on Peshmerga forces
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’ recent meetings – 7 November 2020
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.
Committees' recent meetings - 2 November 2020
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.
Committees' recent meetings - 31 October 2020
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.
Eighty-one MPs vote to end interpellation of KRG PM, Deputy PM and Finance Minister, reject call for motion of no confidence
The Kurdistan Parliament on 27 October sat for first readings of two bills on water, and MPs in the opposition further questioned in absentia the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister on cuts to government employees’ salaries. The opposition MPs’ bid to move to a motion of no confidence was rejected, with 81 of 91 present MPs voting that they were convinced by the Government’s answers and to end the questioning.
Committees' recent meetings - 28 October 2020
In recent meetings the Peshmerga Committee discussed officer promotions and retirement, and the Protection of Women's Rights Committee started preparing for the one-week campaign to eliminate violence against women.
Order of Business for sitting of 27 October 2020
The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament calls MPs to a sitting on Monday 27th October 2020 at 2pm – the ninth ordinary sitting of the autumn session of the second year of the Kurdistan Parliament’s fifth term. The Presidency of Parliament announces the order of business of the sitting as follows:
Committees’ recent meetings - 25 October 2020
Committees met with representatives of Ayatollah Sayed Sadiq Husseini Al-Shirazi, and met the Head of the Investment Board to look into problems with teachers’ housing projects in Kifri and Kalar.
Committees' recent meetings - 22 October 2020
Committees are looking into a company's transfer abroad of 6 billion euros, youth migration, interior security forces' retirement, teachers' salaries, road and housing problems, and municipal services and privatization of the electricity sector. They also met with a Yazidi delegation.