Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq Representation in Austria

On Tuesday, 9 June 2015, Vian Dakhil, female Yezidi member of the Iraqi parliament, received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights. Vian Dakhil became well known beyond the borders of Iraq, when in the summer of 2014 she pleaded in the Iraqi parliament for the rescue of the Yezidi minority from the…
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Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani participated in the opening session of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa and held meetings with a number of leaders from the region. The President met with Egyptian President Abdulfatah Al-Sisi, King Abdullah of Jordan, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss political and…
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On the first day of his official visit to the Czech Republic, Kurdistan Region President, Masoud Barzani, accompanied by a Kurdistan Regional Government delegation, was received on Tuesday at the Presidential Palace in Prague by the President of the Czech Republic Mr. Miloš Zeman. The two leaders discussed the latest developments in Iraq and Kurdistan…
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Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani and his accompanying delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Monday, 11 May, met Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, in Budapest to discuss bilateral ties. President Barzani thanked the Hungarian government for its support to the Kurdistan Region Peshmerga Forces and welcomed a recent decision by the Hungarian parliament to…
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The President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani visited Washington for talks with US President Obama and several other government officials. The focus of the talks was on the current war against the IS terror organization, and on bilateral political and economic ties between the Kurdistan Region and the United States of America. In the…
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