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The AGM of the group is at 5pm on Monday 6 June in W2 at the Commons.

Early day motion 99 Session: 2016-17 Date tabled: 25.05.2016 Primary sponsor: Glindon, Mary Total number of signatures: 10 Bottomley, Peter Durkan, Mark Gapes, Mike Glindon, Mary Kinahan, Danny McGarry, Natalie Meale, Alan Ritchie, Margaret Shannon, Jim Stephens, Christopher That this … Continue reading →

Please book a ticket, indeed several, for this Save the Children benefit for the child refugees in Kurdistan. They need your support. https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19596

On the day of the centenary of the Sykes-Picot agreement this week, the Kurdish Rudaw media network (for which I write a weekly column) asked me if David Cameron would advance the independence of Kurdistan. I suggested this was the … Continue reading →

You’ll be hearing a lot this week about Sykes-Picot, a secret agreement signed by British and French diplomats a hundred years ago. It aimed to carve up the collapsing Ottoman Empire between France and Britain but was overtaken by events. … Continue reading →

Twenty miles from Mosul, my driver hit the brakes but only because he had spotted a speed camera. Mundane here maybe but proof of a new determination to root out the reckless driving I have seen in a decade of … Continue reading →

Remarks by Karwan Jamal Tahir at the launch on 19 April 2016 in the Commons of the APPG Report on its delegation to the Kurdistan Region The title of the report is most appropriate. The Kurdistan Region is indeed “The … Continue reading →

Kurdistan achieved its independence last week but you may not yet have noticed it. They now have a separate domain in cyberspace – Krd. The next question is whether or when that can become a two letter suffix with an … Continue reading →

Diplomacy and international relations are made by people and not just states. The force of this was impressed on me on a trade mission to the Kurdistan Region with a guy called Andy Parkinson. He was trying to win contracts … Continue reading →

appg pdf The APPG has launched a major report on its most recent delegation to the Kurdistan Region, which can be read in its entirety at the above PDF. The Kurdistan Region is a valued ally whose religious pluralism is … Continue reading →