updated Thu. December 28, 2023
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Rudaw
March 6, 2018
The post of the finance minister has not been filled since confidence in KDP politician Hoshyar Zebari was withdrawn in 2016. Amin Bakir, another Kurdish MP in Baghdad, confirmed to Rudaw that Abadi has pledged to send the salaries of the two ministries in question. He added receiving the salaries isÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
October 31, 2017
Discussions were ongoing to allow Iraqi "oversight" at the border, Hoshyar Zebari, a former Iraqi foreign minister now working as an advisor to the KRG, told Reuters. An Iraqi official showed Reuters pictures of the Iraqi flag being raised at the border gate, where Iraqi and Turkish soldiers were deployed andÃâà...
New York Times
September 29, 2017
Hoshyar Zebari, who helped lead the referendum drive in the Kurdish region and was formerly Iraq's foreign minister, said that criticism of the vote from the United States had “emboldened Baghdad” to take a hard-line position toward the Kurds. Baghdad's threatened retaliation was, he said, “very damagingÃâà...
The Independent
July 19, 2017
Residents of the besieged city were killed by Iraqi ground forces attempting to force out militants, as well as by air strikes and Isis fighters, according to Kurdish intelligence services. Hoshyar Zebari, until recently a senior minister in Baghdad, told The Independent that many bodies “are still buried under theÃâà...
Haaretz
June 8, 2017
A senior Kurdish official, Hoshiyar Zebari, told Reuters in April the expected "yes" vote would strengthen the Kurds' hand in talks on self-determination with Baghdad and would not mean automatically declaring independence. The Kurds play a major role in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat ISIS, theÃâà...
The Times
May 8, 2017
Senior Kurdish officials told The Times that they would soon announce a date for the referendum to press their case for independence from Baghdad, taking with them a lucrative swathe of territory that they control after recapturing it from Isis. “We lost hope in the new Iraq,” said Hoshyar Zebari, the formerÃâà...
