Prime Minister Masrour Barzani Receives the US Treasury Department's Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing

Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (GOV.KRD) – Prime Minister Masrour Barzani today met with the US Treasury Department’s Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea and US Consul-General Steven Fagin.

Prime Minister Barzani updated the US officials on the Kurdistan Regional Government’s ongoing dialogue with the Federal Government of Iraq. He affirmed the new government’s commitment to establishing a peaceful and stable relationship with Baghdad, underpinned by the Kurdistan Region’s rights under the constitution.

The Prime Minister and the US officials discussed the new government’s efforts to grow and diversify the Kurdistan Region’s economy.

The Assistant Secretary expressed support for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s modernizing reforms and welcomed the progress it had already made.

Prime Minister Barzani encouraged the Assistant Secretary to support the new government’s efforts to develop the Kurdistan Region’s financial sector and to connect the its banks to international markets.

The US officials acknowledged the Kurdistan Regional Government’s strong track record of disrupting the illicit financing of terrorist groups and welcomed its wider counter-terrorism cooperation with the US.

Prime Minister Barzani said that as a responsible member of the international community the Kurdistan Regional Government would continue to work with its international partners to defeat terrorism.