Kurdistan region, Iraq, goverment policy
UK Government policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
6 May 2014
On Tuesday 6 May at 2.30pm in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, the Foreign Affairs Committee will be holding its first evidence session on UK Government policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
- Parliament TV: watch the evidence session
- Inquiry: UK Government foreign policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- Foreign Affairs Committee
The Committee will be hearing from two academic witnesses on Iraq and Kurdistan, followed by an expert on energy policy in Iraq and the wider Middle East. Among issues likely to be discussed are the difficult relationship between the federal and Kurdish governments in Iraq, the Kurdistan region’s move towards energy self-sufficiency in the face of hostility from Baghdad, and the UK bilateral and business relationship with the Kurdistan region.
Witnesses
At 2.30pm
- Professor Charles Tripp, Professor of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- Professor Gareth Stansfield, Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies, Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
At 3.45pm
- John Roberts, Energy Security Consultant, Methinks Ltd