Statement from Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region

ARK News... Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region, said in a statement that the decision of the Supreme Iraqi Federal Court at this time is nothing but suspicious and raises dozens of great question marks, and it also raises the issue of urgency in issuing a new law to reconfigure the court as an important and central part of the agreement concluded between the political parties to form the new Iraqi federal government.

The text of the statement read:

The decision of the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court, which was issued today and ruled that the disbursement of financial dues and salaries of Kurdistan Region employees by the Iraqi federal government in the years 2021 and 2022 is absolutely unfair. This decision does not only target wage earners and the people of Kurdistan who are Iraqi citizens but rather targets the entire political process and stability, and the agreement under which the new Iraqi federal government was formed.

Iraq went through a long, complex, and unstable political process until a government was finally born in Baghdad on which the people of Iraq held hope for a period of stability and a better future. All expectations were for the Iraqi Federal Supreme Court to protect the interests of all components of Iraq and take into account the political circumstances and not turn into a means to sabotage the opportunity and the positive atmosphere that was created to solve the country's problems, especially the problems of Erbil and Baghdad, and not to endanger the political stability in Iraq!

The decision of the Iraqi Supreme Federal Court at this time raises doubts and dozens of great question marks. It also increases the issue of urgency in issuing a new law to reconfigure the court as an important and central part of the agreement concluded between the political parties to form the new Iraqi federal government.


Nechirvan Barzani

President of the Kurdistan Region

January 25, 2023

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