Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) during his meeting with the UN Secretary-General António, Feb. 16, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
United Nations General Secretary António Guterres addresses a news conference during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 24, 2023. (Photo: AP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during his meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Dec. 2, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) during his meeting with UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States of the UNDP, June 21, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Abdallah al-Dardari, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States of the UNDP, June 21, 2023 (Photo: KRG)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the UN High-level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States at UN Headquarters on June 19, 2023, in New York. (Photo: Yuki Iwamura/ AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani during his meeting with the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in Erbil, March 2, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (C) arrives for a meeting with Iraq's foreign minister at the foreign ministry in Baghdad, March 1, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A family sit on a rock in front of a cargo ship anchors in the Marmara Sea awaits to access to cross the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 13, 2022 (Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP/File)