Kurdistan Regional Government
Representation in Italy
Mrs. Kader participated in a two days International Conference on the
theme "Arab Geopolitcs in Turmoil" organized by the NATO
Defense College Foundation in cooperation with the Gulf Research
Center Foundation, NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, the
NATO Defense College and the University of Jordan at the Auditorium of
Via Veneto in Rome.
The conference, which was introduced by the Chairman of the NATO
Defense College Foundation Alessandro Minuto - Rizzo and the
Commandant of the NATO Defense College Janusz Bojarski, was attended
by representatives of the diplomatic, political, military, academic
Italian and foreign world, in particular by authorities of the Arab
countries such as the former secretary general of the League of Arab
States, HE Amre M. Moussa, the former Prime Minister of Libya, Mr.
Mahmoud Gebril, the former Egyptian Ambassador to NATO and EU, Amb.
Mahmoud Karem, the Deputy Minister of Yemen, Rashad Al Alimi, the
Chairman of the National Security Bureau in Kuwait City, Sheikh Thamer
Ali Al-Sabah.
The Middle East is facing with several issues: regional divisions,
civil wars, the growing power of terrorist groups and other non-state
actors, humanitarian crises. At the base, there are ethnic and
religious causes and the struggle for control of resources. After
Lebanon, other countries in the Middle East are now subject to a risk
of disintegration because of the ISIS terrorists and other centrifugal
forces. The exclusive use of military assets has testified that , in
the past and today, it is not the ideal instrument to solve this type
of conflict, which require effective political cooperation among the
international community in order to elaborate a shared project that
ensures stability and security in the region, focusing first of all,
on the educational system and culture in the Arab world.
Following the intervention of the Director of the Department of
studies on terrorism and national security of the Gulf Research Center
in Jeddah, Mustafa Alani, who spoke of all the forces fighting Daesh
and dangerousness of Daesh, Mrs. Kader took the word by pointing to
Dr. Mustafa had forgotten to mention the Kurdish peshmerga forces that
are the only ones on the field to fight against Daesh since two years
along 1,050 km and they make them available to both the government of
Iraq and Syria for the liberation of territories outside their
territorial jurisdiction. In this situation, the central government in
Baghdad, not only does not support the Kurdistan Regional Government
at the military level but not even send, since two years, the budget
provided for by the Constitution of Iraq. Despite these difficulties,
the Kurdistan Region is hosting 1.8 million people, including refugees
and displaced persons, without distinction of ethnic - religious
affiliation.