The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, received on Wednesday morning the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Alexander Challenberg, in Erbil, and they discussed the situation in Iraq and the region.
A statement by the region’s presidency said that the President of the Kurdistan Region and the Foreign Minister of Austria discussed relations between Erbil and Vienna, as well as developments in Iraq and the situation in the region.
For his part, a correspondent for the Kurdish Rudaw Media Network said that Alexander Challenberg will chair a work conference in Erbil today, in the presence of the Austrian Ambassador to Iraq, Austrian companies, and a number of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
It is noteworthy that Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Challenberg arrived in Baghdad yesterday, Tuesday, and held a press conference with Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in the building of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency