In the meeting, the Kurdistan Region relations with Sweden, the condition of the refugees and the displaced people in the Kurdistan Region and the ways to assist them, the demonstrations and the latest developments in Iraq and the broader region were discussed.

Barzani expressed gratitude for Sweden’s support to the region as part of the international coalition against IS and the Swedish humanitarian assistance to the refugees and IDPs in the Kurdistan Region, read a statement of the region’s presidency.

According to the statement Barzani also expressed the Kurdistan Region’s willingness to further expand relations with Sweden.

The two sides also spoke about the importance of the efforts by all sides to deescalate tensions, the danger of terror and the necessity of the global coalition’s uninterrupted commitment to confront terror.

The Foreign Minister Linde thanked the Kurdistan Region for its role in confronting terror and protecting and assisting the displaced people, in particulate the religious and ethnic communities.

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