Hawrami participates at Foreign Policy Forum in Berlin

During a meeting on the sidelines of the Berlin Forum on Foreign Policy where Hemin Hawrami is participating by official invitation, extended the greetings of President Massoud Barzani to the Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni Silveri, and thanked the government and people of Italy for their support toward the people of Kurdistan.

Mr Silveri expressed praise on the Kurdistan Region for courageously fighting against extremism while defending their freedom and said his government will continue providing support for the Kurds in military and humanitarian aspects.

For the second year, Mr Hemin Hawrami head of KDP’s FRO is attending the event by official invitation which is scheduled for 29th November.

The Berlin Foreign Policy Forum gives an international group of 200 eminent politicians, government representatives, experts and journalists the opportunity to discuss some of the central German and European foreign policy issues.

Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke at the Forum on 29 November with a speech on perspectives of German and European foreign policy, followed by a discussion with Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni. In an interview during the Forum, Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble will elaborate on “Europe at the Crossroads”.

Furthermore, the results of a representative survey commissioned by Körber Foundation on German attitudes towards Europe will be first presented at the Forum. You may find further information about this here shortly.

In addition, this year’s Forum will focus the following issues central to German and European foreign policy: What are the perspectives on a rapprochement between Russia and the EU and on managing the multiple conflicts in the Middle East? What role for the EU in Asia? And which foreign policy priorities are to be expected from the new US administration?

About 200 high-ranking politicians, government representatives, experts and journalists will gather at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum on November 29. More than half of the participants are international guests from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States.