President Masoud Barzani, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Independence Referendum in Kurdistan, tweeted the following poem. The Poem was written by the Tunisian Poet Abu Qasim Al Shabi (1909-1934):
If the people will to live
Providence is destined to favourably respond
And night is destined to fold
And the chains are certain to be broken
And he who has not embraced the love of life
Will evaporate in its atmosphere and disappear.
Happy Bastille Day to the People and government of France and the Consulate General of France in the Kurdistan Region.
President Brazani receives Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Iraq.