UK Government policy on Kurdistan region of Iraq evidence session
14 July 2014
On Tuesday 15 July, the Foreign Affairs Committee will be holding its second evidence session on UK Government policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
- Parliament TV: UK Government policy on the Kurdistan region of Iraq
- Inquiry: UK Government policy on the Kurdistan region of Iraq
- Foreign Affairs Committee
This will be the first session since the fall of Mosul to extremists in early June, the occupation of disputed territories by Kurdish Peshmerga troops, and President Masoud Barzani’s declaration that he intends to push for a referendum on Kurdish self-determination.
The Committee’s three witnesses are the Kurdistan Region’s official representative in London, a former US diplomat who helped draw Saddam’s atrocities in Kurdistan to international attention and went on to advise Iraqi-Kurds as they negotiated their formal autonomy from Baghdad, and an Iraqi-Arab former senior Minister in the Baghdad government.
Location
The meeting will take place on Tuesday 15 July 2014 in Committee room 16, Palace of Westminster
Witnesses
At 2.30 pm
- Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government High Representative to the UK
At 3.20 pm
- Peter Galbraith
- Dr Ali Allawi, Former Minister for Trade, Defence and Finance, Government of Iraq