The content of the meeting of the President of the Kurdistan Region and the Commander-in-Chief of the Coalition Forces

The content of the meeting of the President of the Kurdistan Region and the Commander-in-Chief of the Coalition Forces

Apr 05 2023

ARK News... The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, received, on Tuesday, the Commander-in-Chief of the International Coalition Forces in Iraq and Syria, General Matthew MacFarlane, and an accompanying military delegation.

In a meeting attended by the US Consul General in the Kurdistan Region, General MacFarlane praised the President of the Kurdistan Region for his steps in the field of unifying the Peshmerga forces and the reform process in the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, and for the ceremony announcing the start of the tasks of the first and second divisions of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces within the framework of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, which took place today.

During the meeting, they discussed the importance of strengthening coordination between the forces of the International Coalition to eliminate Da’esh and the Kurdistan Region in the field of countering terrorism, and the two sides stressed the continuation of cooperation to defeat Da’esh and eliminate it once and for all.

The importance of finding solutions to the outstanding problems between Erbil and Baghdad, especially oil problems, budget, and dialogue between the two sides, was discussed in another aspect of the meeting.

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