PM Barzani tells UK envoy the KRG pays attention to all social groups

04-03-2018
Rudaw
Tags: KRG-UK Nechirvan Barzani education Nazir Ahmed disputed areas
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A British politician expressed the United Kingdom’s readiness to coordinate with the Kurdistan Region and commended Erbil’s role in protecting the rights of the individual and minorities in areas affected by the ISIS war.

Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met with Lord Tariq Ahmed, a Foreign Office minister and the UK prime minister’s special representative on preventing sexual violence in conflict.

 

Barzani, according the KRG statement, expressed gratitude to the United Kingdom on Saturday for its assistance in humanitarian matters in Kurdistan, and reiterated his government will pay particular attention to the rights of individuals and all social groups and classes.


Barzani stressed the importance of education in educating healthy individuals and preventing violence.

They also discussed the war on terror and the situation facing IDPs in the Kurdistan Region.

Kurdistan shelters more than 1.4 million Iraqis displaced from elsewhere in the country, according to the Joint Crisis Coordination Center.

More than 200,000 refugees from Syria also remain in the Kurdistan Region. 

International NGOs and human rights organizations are concerned that IDPs in Iraq’s Anbar province are facing ‘coerced, forced, blocked returns’ ahead of this year’s elections in Iraq.


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