MPs vote in favour of two committees' recommendations on more support for Peshmerga forces to counter ISIS
The Kurdistan Parliament on 8 December 2021 discussed the attacks by the ISIS terrorist organization on Peshmerga posts and barricades. MPs voted in favour of two committees' recommendations to provide more support for the Peshmerga forces to prevent and counter the terrorist attacks.
Speaker Faiq asked MPs to vote on having a closed off-camera discussion on the findings and recommendations of two committees on their investigations into the attacks by the ISIS terrorist organization on Peshmerga posts and barricades (the Peshmerga Committee and the Committee on Kurdistani Areas outside the KRG Administrative Area), due to the sensitivity and confidentiality of some of the security issues. A majority of MPs voted in favour.
In the off-camera discussion, the two committees explained their findings on Peshmerga’s lack of certain equipment and their needs, and other problems that they face.
MPs voted in favour of the two committees’ recommendations.
The Legislative and Finance and Economic Affairs committees then held the second reading of the Bill on Amendments to the Ministry of Finance and Economy in Kurdistan Region – Iraq. MPs gave their detailed feedback and suggestions on every article of the bill.
MPs approved the resignation of MP Sirwan Faraj Muhammad (Independent; Sirwan Baban) from the Relations and Kurdish Diaspora Committee, with 51 votes in favour.
MP Sawsan Muhammad Mirkhan (KDP), Chair of Parliament’s Martyrs, Genocide and Political Prisoners Committee, read a speech in observance of the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.
Ms. Mirkhan said that on 9 December 1948 the United Nations, as a step towards achieving peace and reconciliation and preventing a return to war and crimes against humanity, adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
She referred to the crimes that Iraqi regimes had committed against the people of Kurdistan, called for these crimes be recognized as genocide and material and psychological reparations be made to the victims and to the areas affected by these crimes.
