Deputy Speaker’s News

We are very saddened and concerned to learn of the fire that broke out at Sharya camp in Duhok for Yazidi IDPs. We are also deeply concerned about the lives and prospects for Yazidis, and we call for the situation in their areas to be normalized so that they can return home with dignity and in peace.

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 2 June met with Mr. Mikihiro Arakawa, the new Head of Japan’s Consular Office in Kurdistan Region.

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 1 June met with Turkey’s Consul General in Kurdistan Region, Mr. Hakan Karacay.

The Kurdistan Parliament on 26 May held a sitting presided over by the Speaker Dr. Rewaz Faiq, for the second reading of the first amendments to Law No. 3 of 2019, the Law on Illegally Taken or Used Land in Municipalities of Kurdistan Region.

The Kurdistan Parliament on 25 May held a sitting to discuss murders, suicides, domestic violence and possession of weapons with the relevant KRG ministers, and to ask the KRG what it is doing to reduce such crimes.

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 26 May welcomed Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Wajih Hijazi, Egypt’s new Consul in the Kurdistan Region. They discussed the current political situation in Kurdistan Region, Iraq and the wider region, and the long standing relations between the peoples of Kurdistan and Egypt.

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami on 26 May welcomed Dr. Stavros Kyrimis, Greece's new Consul General in Kurdistan Region. They discussed strengthening relations between the parliaments of Kurdistan and Greece, as well as closer academic and commercial relations. 

I urge Kurdistan’s political parties to be closer, in the spirit of reconciliation and brotherhood, and to place the interests of the people of Kurdistan above party or personal interests, just as at the end of the Gulan Revolution all the forces came together and formed the Kurdistan Front, thereby making great achievements for the people of Kurdistan.

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Dr. Hemin Hawrami conveyed his condolences on the passing of Taib Dashtani and Kan’an Hussein, two media staff at Kurdistan TV satellite channel, in the following message:

The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Dr. Rewaz Faiq calls MPs to a sitting on Tuesday 25 May 2021 at 11am, the 14th ordinary sitting of the spring session of the third year of the fifth term of Parliament. The Presidency of Parliament announces the order of business of the sitting as follows: