Today marks the soft launch of "My Account" initiative, a financial inclusion program for public sector employees, pensioners and security forces. In the coming days, we will pilot this initiative by paying salaries to nearly 850 employees of Erbil's Children and Maternity Hospital using electronic transfers to new digitally enabled bank accounts. Over the coming months, we wil ...
Council of Ministers discusses Kurdistan’s share of budget, oil and gas law
The Prime Minister: We are ready for all kinds of coordination and cooperating with the federal government to resolve our issues. If they remain unresolved, they will harm the interests of all Iraqi citizens. Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Wednesday chaired the Council of Ministers meeting. In the first part of the gathering, the Prime Minister briefed th ...
Prime Minister Masrour Barzani announces the KRG's first e-Visa portal
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Wednesday, February 22 announced the launch of the KRG’s first e-Visa portal, in line with the promise to turn KRG into a digital government powerhouse by the end of 2025. The new paperless portal (visit.gov.krd) allows visitors and investors to apply for visas online, helping to boost tourism and foreign investment in the Kur ...
Prime Minister Barzani issues two decrees on International Mother (Tongue) Language Day
Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani issued two decrees, on the importance of the Kurdish language on Tuesday. Decision 1: Preparation of an appropriate Kurdish language learning program for foreign residents in the Kurdistan Region, by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Ministry of Education in coordination with the K ...
Prime Minister welcomes Indian diplomat, Ausaf Sayeed
On Tuesday, the Kurdistan Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani, received Mr. Ausaf Sayeed, Secretary (CPV & OIA) at the Ministry of External Affairs of India. The meeting was attended by the Indian ambassador to Iraq Mr. Prashant Pise and the country’s Consul general to Erbil Mr. Subhash Chandra Kain. Mr. Sayeed briefed the Prime Minister on the purpose of their visit and expr ...
Prime Minister Barzani welcomes home Kurdish rescue teams
The Prime Minister: We will continue assisting anyone who needs help, anywhere and anyway possible. Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Sunday welcomed the Kurdish relief teams that had been dispatched to quake-zones in Syria and Turkey. On behalf of the Kurdish people, the Prime Minister thanked those teams and said: “your works demonstrated that we are peace ...