President of Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani visited Germany where he met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, deputy minister for economic affairs Franziska Brantner and deputy minister for foreign affairs Tobias Lindner.
President Nechirvan Barzani visited Rome and held a series of meetings with Italian authorities and the Holy See. The President of the Kurdistan Region held talks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President of the Senate Ignazio la Russa and President of the Chamber of Deputies Lorenzo Fontana. At the Vatican, the President had an audience with Pope Francis and meeting with Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.
On 17-18 February 2023, a delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government headed by Prime Minister Masrour Barzani visited France. Prime minister met with president Emmanuel Macron, president of Senate Gerard Larcher and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo. Mettings concerned among others: security issues, combating terrorism, trade and energy cooperation and Erbil-Baghdad relations.
On January 16-20, 2023, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government Masrour Barzani and his accompanying delegation attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. Attendance at this conference provided the opportunity for many bilateral and backstage meetings with prime ministers, ministers and parliamentarians from around the world.
On 23 December 2022, Italian Prime Minister Georga Meloni visited the Kurdistan Region and met with Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and President Nechirvan Barzani. The main topic of discussion was cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Prime Minister Meloni and the Prime Minister and President of the Kurdistan Region expressed the view that the threat of ISIS terrorism still exists and that military cooperation in this regard will continue. Italy has from the beginning been an important member of the international coalition in the fight against the so-called Islamic State.
On December 9-10, 2022, the President of Hungary, Katalin Novak, visited the Kurdistan Region. At the Erbil airport, she was welcomed by President Nechirvan Barzani, who then held a meeting with her. The president also spoke with Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. Hungarian-Iraqi relations and cooperation between Hungary and the Kurdistan Region were discussed, as well as the issue of combating ISIS and the situation of refugees in camps in the Kurdistan Region.
On April 19-20, 2022, Prime Minister Masrour Barzani paid a visit to Great Britain. The first point of the visit was a meeting with UK PM Boris Johnson. Political situation in Kurdistan Region and Iraq as well as Kurdish-British trade cooperation were topics of the meeting. (more…)
In March 2022 KRG Prime Minister visited United Arab Emirates. Masrour Barzani attended two international conferences in UAE: World Government Summit and Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum. (more…)
On February 19-21, 2022, KRG delegation headed by president Nechirvan Barzani and Prime Minister Masrour Barzani took part in the international conference in Munich. (more…)
