Today, the High Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in
Italy, Mrs. Rezan Kader was received by the Min. Pl. Luigi Ferrari,
Diplomatic Advisor to the Minister of Health, Min. Beatrice Lorenzin,
at the Ministry of Health in Rome.
The talks focused on relations between Italy and the Kurdistan Region,
the 'current situation in the Kurdistan Region, the fight against
Daesh terrorists and the grave humanitarian crisis.
The Italian Government, stressed Mrs. Kader, plays a leading role
within the international coalition and at military and humanitarian
level. However, the situation has become unsustainable, also due to
the lack of support from the central government in Baghdad. The
Kurdistan Regional Government needs, among other necessities,
medicines, hygienic - sanitary kits, medical assistance for the care
of the wounded peshmergas, both locally and abroad.
Cons. Ferrari has praised the courage of the Kurdish people and its
peshmerga in the fight against Daesh, as well as the Kurdistan
Regional Government’s immigration policy towards refugees and
displaced persons. He added that, although the Ministry of Health does
not have the resources to be allocated as humanitarian aid, however,
it will exert its pressure in the context of collaborative projects
with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to track down
the priority areas in need of an urgent intervention. It may therefore
seek to provide Italian structures of excellence capable of developing
humanitarian interventions on site and those ones properly organized
to receive and treat the wounded peshmergas on the Italian territory.
