Senior Kurdistan Region leaders congratulate newly-inaugurated US President Joe Biden

Senior Kurdistan Region officials have extended their congratulations to the new US leader.
Masoud Barzani, former president of the Kurdistan Region (right), shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in Erbil, April 28, 2016. (Photo: Archive)
Masoud Barzani, former president of the Kurdistan Region (right), shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in Erbil, April 28, 2016. (Photo: Archive)

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A slew of congratulatory messages have been sent to the newly sworn-in US President, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris since their inauguration on Wednesday. Among them, senior Kurdistan Region officials have extended their congratulations to the new US leaders.

Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani on Thursday issued a congratulatory message on Biden’s inauguration after he was sworn-in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday.

“President Masoud Barzani congratulated President Joe Biden in a letter on the occasion of his inauguration and wished him success,” a statement from the KDP leader’s office revealed.

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani had also expressed his “warmest congratulations” to President Biden and VP Harris, adding, “I look forward to working closely with you [Biden administration] to strengthen the KRG-US partnership and restore much-needed certainty to the region.”

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Elsewhere, the Kurdistan Region’s President, Nechirvan Barzani, also congratulated both the new American leaders on Wednesday, saying he looks “forward to working with our friends in the new administration.”

Biden will be the first US president who, as he assumes office, knows the Kurdish leadership, having met with them in Washington, as well as Erbil, which he visited in December 2002, when he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and as the US prepared for a war with Iraq that would begin a few months later, in March 2003.

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Editing by Karzan Sulaivany