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Erbil: busy, Dr. Barham Saleh, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq during his current visit to Washington to examine three files basic and discuss them with officials of the U.S. administration, which is a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year, which is a concern to the Government of the Region in spite of the absence of any U.S. forces on the territory of the Kurdistan Region, and the enjoyment of the territory of the stability of a security is remarkable,

and the second file is to urge U.S. companies to enter the competitive market investment in the region, especially in the oil and gas, and the third file is the repercussions of the events of spring, the Arab situation in Iraq and Kurdistan.

Said Twana Ahmed, Director of Information Office of the President of the Government of the Territory and is currently in Washington as part of the government delegation, told «Middle East» by phone, the most important «files discussed by Barham Salih, with U.S. officials, whether in management or members of Congress is to file a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and its implications for security situation, the future », pointing out that« the meeting in favor with Vice President Joe Biden, and with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Raymond Odierno, focusing primarily on the implications of a withdrawal and its effects on the fragile security situation in Iraq, command of the region and with the prime minister, Barham Salih, see This withdrawal will create a vacuum that a serious security must be wary of it, especially with the intensification of terrorist operations in the recent period, and see the leadership of the region that the security situation in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region are linked, so that the region will be affected by deteriorating security in the rest of Iraq, and that the basis for the functioning of the democratic political process in Iraq is based on the stability of the security situation ».

He cautioned Media Director of the Office of the Prime Minister of the region that «the Kurdish leadership believes that the U.S. withdrawal will affect the security situation in Iraq, so focused favor during his talks with General Odierno, the importance of continued U.S. cooperation in the training of Iraqi forces to enable them to face the challenges ahead, and stressed (valid) during the meeting, the U.S. role in supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga forces through training and standardization of configurations to ensure the security and stability of the region ».

On the second file, said Ahmed «seek the Prime Minister to attract American companies to Kurdistan Region as a region the safest in Iraq, and stressed the need for more support of foreign investment to advance its economy local, especially in the petroleum industry, and therefore met at the headquarters of the Representation of the territorial Government in Washington a large number of businessmen and personalities in order to get them to come to Kurdistan, and discussed this issue also with the U.S. administration, and asked them to urge American companies to enter the competition, investment in Iraq through the gate of the region », pointing out that the benefit of and« in his meetings with various officials in the administration American business and that the volume of investment in the region reached $ 16 billion, with the participation of hundreds of foreign and Arab companies, and that there is need for further consultations to support the private sector and the promotion of turn ».

With regard to file the third on the implications and effects of protest movements in the Arab region, and so-called «Arab spring», said Director of the Information Office of the President of the Government of the Territory «The Kurdistan, like other countries in the region affected by the popular movement, so the regional government is currently working on reforms necessary at the level of administration of the territory, and for this stressed Barham Saleh on this side assured by the U.S. move his government in the process of radical reforms of the political and economic situation in the region, and called also the Iraqi government to take similar steps to meet the popular demands, especially in the service, and pointing to the changes taking place in region of the fall of dictatorships and the emergence of the features a wholesale revolution against tyranny and oppression authoritarian », adding that« this movement will be launched for a new political era in the whole region, which imposes on the governments of Iraq and the regional should work hard to keep up with these changes through the necessary reforms and the fight against corruption and to promote freedom public and individual ».