Rewaz Faiq: Strengthening stability in Kurdistan Region, Iraq enhances stability in the entire region

Iraq 02:30 PM - 2021-06-06

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The Speaker of Kurdistan Parliament stressed the need to address internal problems and unify the efforts of all political parties to face the challenges facing the Kurdistan Region with unity.

 

During the Challenges Facing the Kurdistan Region conference held at Kurdistan Parliament building, Dr. Rewaz Faiq said in speech: "Strengthening security and stability in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq enhances security and stability in the entire region."

 

"There are risks facing the Kurdistan Region's experience at the level of Iraq and abroad, and the dangers of the terrorist organization ISIS remain on the disputed regions, in addition to the dangers that threaten the lives of our citizens in the border areas that are witnessing a proxy war," she added. 

 

She also explained: "we submitted several memoranda to the United Nations representation in the Kurdistan Region and the three presidencies in Iraq with the aim of stopping the military operations and keeping the specter of war away from the Kurdistan Region."

 

"All parties must play their role in stopping the war on the borders of the Kurdistan region, especially since Iraq is one of the members of the United Nations. Protecting international security and stability are the goals of the United Nations, so protecting the borders and sovereignty of Iraq are from the tasks of the federal government," she emphasized.

 

Five Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and seven wounded in an attach by the PKK, the ministry of Peshmerga said in a statement on Saturday. read more

 

The Peshmerga convoy was attacked by PKK on Matin mountain, near the border of the Amedi town, with both light and heavy weaponry, while conducting a routine security check in the area, the statement said.

 

The PKK did not immediately comment.

 

"The Ministry of Peshmerga is demanding immediate action from the Iraqi Federal Government to put an end to ongoing Turkish military operations in the Kurdistan Region," the statement added.

 

And demands the PKK to "take their fight somewhere else, away from Kurdish homes and the Kurdistan Region."

 

The Kurdistan Region's Presidency also condemned the attack launched on the Peshmerga forces in Matin mountain, claiming that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was behind it.

 

"We strongly condemn the attack this morning that was carried out by the PKK gunmen in Matina subdistrict of Amedi, Dohuk province, on Peshmarga forces," the Presidency stated.

 

Meanwhile, a Turkish air strike killed at least three people on Saturday at Makhmur camp for displaced people in Erbil.

 

The strike on the camp housing thousands of Kurdish refugees from Turkey took place three days after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned Iraq that Turkey would "clean up" a refugee camp which it says provides a haven for Kurdish militants.

 

Turkish forces have stepped up attacks on bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside northern Iraq over the last year, focusing their firepower and incursions mainly on a strip of territory up to 30 km (19 miles) inside Iraq.

 

Erdogan said on Thursday that Makhmur, a camp 180 km south of the Turkish border which has hosted thousands of Turkish refugees for more than two decades, was an "incubator" for militants and must be tackled.

 

The camp was established in the 1990s when thousands of Kurds from Turkey crossed the border in a movement Ankara says was deliberately provoked by the PKK.

 

The PKK, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union, has fought an insurgency against the state in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey since 1984.

 

 

 

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