Barzani: “We need the international community’s support to cope with terrorism”

 

The Chancellor of Kurdistan Region Security Council Masrour Barzani, received a UK Parliamentary delegation led by Conservative Party’s Tobias Ellwood, which included Lord Morris from the Labour Party and Gary Kent of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kurdistan.

 

During the meeting, the two sides exchanged their views of the security situation in some parts of Iraq and the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk,.

Mr Barzani said a significant security vacuum in many parts of the country is taking place because of recent terrorist attacks, especially in the provinces bordering Kurdistan, which abandoned its security institutions.

He said, "The armed groups not only threaten the region and Iraq, but also represents a major threat to all the countries in the west and the Middle East, so we need support from the international community to cope with terrorism, provided that such support is not against Iraq or components be biased to one at the expense of others.”

Protecting Kurdistan from threats and to ensure the safety of its citizens were other aspects of their meeting, in addition to the crisis in neighbouring Syria where over a 250,000 people are seeking refuge in the region.