Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 19 June welcomed a delegation from Catalonia, led by Member of the Catalonian Parliament Ruben Wagensberg. They discussed the political and humanitarian situation in Kurdistan Region and ways to build closer ties between the two parliaments.
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Deputy Speaker Hawrami meets Berlin State Parliament MP Hakan Tas
Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 15 June welcomed Mr. Hakan Tash, a Member of Berlin's City-State Parliament. Dr. Hawrami thanked Germany for its assistance to Kurdistan Region in many areas.
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Deputy Speaker Hawrami meets with United States Institute of Peace MENA Director Dr. Elie Abouaoun
Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 16 June met with the United States Institute of Peace Director of Middle East and North Africa Programs, Dr. Elie Abouaoun. They discussed the political, security and humanitarian situation in the Kurdistan Region, the Kurdistani areas outside the KRG, and the rest of Iraq.
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Deputy Speaker Hawrami meets with Heartland Alliance International
Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 16 June met with Sarita Sandosham, Executive Director of the NGO Heartland Alliance International, and her colleagues. They discussed Heartland Alliance’s support for Kurdistan Parliament’s legislative work.
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Deputy Speaker Hawrami meets with US Consul General Rob Waller
Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami and the US Consul General Rob Waller on 15 June discussed the preparations to work on the Kurdistan Constitution, the Bill on the Special Court for the Crimes by ISIS, and the situation in the border areas after the killing of six Peshmerga soldiers by the PKK.
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Deputy Speaker Hawrami meets with Institute for International Law and Human Rights
Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 14 June met with the Institute for International Law and Human Rights (IILHR), a non-profit legal consultancy, to discuss its advisory work with Parliament’s standing committees.
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Deputy Speaker Hawrami meets with Yazidi women campaigners
Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami in his meeting with Mayan Khatun, the wife of Yazidi Prince Mir Hazem Mir Tahsin Bag, and Yazidi women campaigners, said Kurdistan Parliament calls for implementation of the Sinjar Agreement so that Yazidis can safely return to their homes.
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Relations Committee's symposium discusses US-Iraq Strategic Dialogue, security threats, Iraqi election, Reform process, political disunity
Kurdistan Parliament’s Relations Committee on 6 June held a symposium on the Challenges and Prospects for Kurdistan Region, with panels on the US-Iraq Strategic Dialogue, security threats after the war against ISIS, anticipated changes after the next Iraqi election, the Reform process and the impact of political disunity on Kurdistan Region’s position and status.
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Speaker Rewaz Faiq at Relations Committee’s Symposium: We have asked UN General Representation to help stop military incursions, take conflict out of Kurdistan Region
6 June 2021 - At a symposium organized by Parliament's Relations Committee on the Challenges and Prospects for Kurdistan Region, Speaker Rewaz Faiq said that Parliament has asked the UN General Representation in Kurdistan to help end military incursions in the border areas and take the conflict out of Kurdistan Region.
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Kurdistan Parliament's statement on killing of five Peshmerga soldiers calls for conflict to be taken away from Kurdistan Region, both sides to find peaceful solution
The Kurdistan Parliament is deeply saddened by the killing of five Peshmerga soldiers today, 5 June 2021, in Amedi district in an ambush by the PKK. We call for this conflict to be taken away from Kurdistan Region's borders, for all sides to preserve Kurdistan Region's sovereignty, and for neither side to create pretexts for conflicts & invasions.