The regional government calls on the Patriotic Union’s ministerial team to end the boycott and return to its meetings.
The regional government calls on the Patriotic Union’s ministerial team to end the boycott and return to its meetings.
2026-11-11
Shafaq News – Erbil
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Council of Ministers announced on Wednesday its support for the initiative of Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani, who called on all political parties in the region to sit down at the negotiating table and resolve the existing disputes between them. At the same time, it called on the ministerial team of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan to end its boycott of the council’s sessions and return to carry out its duties in the regional government.
This came during the Regional Council of Ministers’ regular weekly meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, where it discussed a number of important issues related to Masoud Barzani’s initiative, the outcomes of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s high-level delegation’s visit to Baghdad, as well as the terrorist attack on the Kormor gas field and its repercussions.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Council of Ministers, in an official statement, expressed its welcome and support for Barzani’s initiative to call on political parties to engage in dialogue and address differences, in order to strengthen the foundations of the political system and consolidate legitimate and constitutional institutions in the Kurdistan Region.
The Cabinet also called on “colleagues” in the ministerial team of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan to resume Cabinet meetings and resume their work and carry out their governmental duties, stressing that the institutional framework of the Cabinet is the natural way to raise any observations or proposals they have to be discussed and addressed within the framework of the Council meetings.
On another note, the Cabinet discussed the outcomes of the recent visit of the high-level Kurdistan Region delegation, headed by the Prime Minister, to Baghdad, and its meeting with the federal government delegation, headed by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.
During his talks in Baghdad, the Prime Minister stressed the need to respect the federal system in Iraq and the constitutional entity of the Kurdistan Region, and to secure the financial entitlements and the region’s share of the federal general budget fairly and justly.
The Cabinet directed the negotiating delegation to continue its discussions and negotiations regarding the draft federal general budget for the year 2027, based on the understandings and positive atmosphere that resulted from the Prime Minister’s recent visit to Baghdad, with the aim of reaching a comprehensive, final and fair agreement that guarantees salaries, financial entitlements and the Kurdistan Region’s share in the federal general budget.
In another item on the meeting’s agenda, the Minister of Electricity and Acting Minister of Natural Resources presented a report on the repercussions of the terrorist attack on the Kormor gas field, which resulted in the cessation of gas production at the field and a decline in electricity supply to citizens. He also addressed the Ministry of Electricity’s efforts to compensate for some of the resulting shortfall through power generation plants operating on heavy fuel oil, diesel, hydroelectric power, and associated gas.
The Interior Minister then reviewed the details of the work of the joint security committee formed between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to investigate the facts and follow up on the circumstances of the attack, stressing that the ongoing investigations are continuing, according to the statement.
The Council of Ministers condemned in the strongest terms this terrorist attack on the Kormor field, which aims to undermine and sabotage the economic and energy infrastructure in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq in general, and to harm the public interest of citizens, stressing the need to put a final end to these attacks.
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