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15 June - Speaker Faiq said to Russia's Consul General Oleg Levin, "We need to understand the level of cooperation with us in terms of the international community’s constitutional, legal, financial and security support for such a court.”

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr. Rewaz Faiq on 16 June continued her meetings with foreign diplomats based in Kurdistan Region to discuss the Bill to Establish the Special Court for Crimes by ISIS. The Speaker met separately with China’s Consul General Ni-Ruchi and Germany’s Acting Consul General Sven Krauspe.

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.

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.

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.

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr. Rewaz Faiq on 15 June met with the US Consul General in Kurdistan Region Mr. Rob Waller, who visited at the Speaker’s request. They discussed the Bill on establishing the Special Court for the Crimes by ISIS in Kurdistan Region - Iraq.

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. 

Committees discussed their findings at the villages in the border areas of Duhok affected by the PKK-Turkey conflict; the decision to increase cancer medicines; and the Bill on Preservation of Documents, Manuscripts and National Archives.

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr. Rewaz Faiq on 14 June chaired the fourth consultative meeting with UNITAD, to discuss the Bill on the Court in Kurdistan Region for the Crimes of ISIS. This time university academics and legal experts participated in the meeting.

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.