MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : GERMAN’S VON DER LEYEN & Kurdistan Premier, German Defence Minister Discuss Berlin Support for Erbil Basnews English – 17/09/2018 – 17:29 – ERBIL — Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani received on Monday German Defense Minister von der Leyen and her accompanying delegation in Erbil to discuss further coordination and extended support from Germany to the Kurdistan Region. According to an official readout on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) website, von der Leyen valued the role of Erbil in sheltering millions of Iraqi IDPs and Syrian refugees who escaped their homes after the emergence of Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The German delegation, which included a number of lawmakers from the country’s defence committee, vowed to continue the flow of aid to the IDPs and refugees remaining in the Kurdistan Region. Barzani, on his turn, thanked Berlin for standing with the Kurdistan Region throughout years of the battle against IS. He noted that the cooperation between Erbil and Berlin should step into a new phase as the IS is militarily defeated, but its extremist ideology persists. Von der Leyen earlier the day paid a visit to German military advisors stationed in the Kurdistan Region to train the Peshmerga. www.mesop.de

Basnews English –  17/09/2018 – 17:29 –  ERBIL — Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani received on Monday German Defense Minister von der Leyen and her accompanying delegation in Erbil to discuss further coordination and extended support from Germany to the Kurdistan Region.

According to an official readout on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) website, von der Leyen valued the role of Erbil in sheltering millions of Iraqi IDPs and Syrian refugees who escaped their homes after the emergence of Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.  The German delegation, which included a number of lawmakers from the country’s defence committee, vowed to continue the flow of aid to the IDPs and refugees remaining in the Kurdistan Region.Barzani, on his turn, thanked Berlin for standing with the Kurdistan Region throughout years of the battle against IS. He noted that the cooperation between Erbil and Berlin should step into a new phase as the IS is militarily defeated, but its extremist ideology persists. Von der Leyen earlier the day paid a visit to German military advisors stationed in the Kurdistan Region to train the Peshmerga. www.mesop.de