Deputy Speaker Hawrami and MPs meet with KRG Culture and Youth Minister Hamai Hama Said

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami and MPs from Parliament’s Culture, Civil Society, Sports and Youth Committee on 9 February met with the KRG Culture and Youth Minister, Hamai Hama Said, at the Ministry. The meeting was to monitor the Ministry’s work and look into implementation of the Reform Law.

Minister Hamai Hama Said was joined by his deputy, advisers and general directors.

On behalf of Parliament’s Presidency, Deputy Speaker Hawrami thanked the Ministry for their close cooperation on answering questions and comments directed by Parliament’s standing committee.

Dr. Hawrami said, "Parliament’s Presidency have decided to visit all the ministries and institutions of Kurdistan Region in this legislative recess to monitor and follow up on Kurdistan Parliament’s laws in force, the Ministry’s work and implementation of the Reform Law, particularly as paragraphs 12 and 15 of the Government's manifesto that the Parliament approved are specific to youth and culture”. 

The Deputy Speaker stressed that both the Kurdistan Parliament and the KRG want the Reform Law to be implemented, that Parliament is following up on enforcement of legislation that has been passed and is ready to amend laws that cover the Ministry of Youth and Culture’s areas of responsibility by hearing the Ministry’s views and suggestions on how to improve them.

They discussed the ministry's plan and program for 2021 in terms of budget, culture, sports and youth, the challenges and problems that the ministry has to overcome to achieve its goals, and the Ministry’s work supporting a key aim of maintaining and strengthening peaceful coexistence between all the original ethnic and religious communities in Kurdistan Region.

Minister Hamai Hama Said gave a summary of the Ministry’s activities so far, the stage that it has reached in implementing the Reform Law, and the challenges created by the financial and health crises.

The MPs and Ministry staff exchanged views on developing culture, providing youth services, working on sports and stadia problems, and regulating the media.

The ministry’s staff said "We plan to present soon all the Ministry’s work to Parliament’s Presidency and the relevant standing committees.”

They discussed the need to prepare a bill on protecting archeology in Kurdistan Region; and to arrange a meeting between Parliament’s relevant standing committees and the three ministries of Culture and Youth, Municipalities and Tourism, and Trade and Industry, on how to implement the Law on Commercial Advertising in Kurdistan Region.