Ambassador Maurizio Greganti travelled to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq for his first mission outside the capital city Baghdad. During his five-day visit, accompanied by the Consul in Erbil, Michele Camerota, and the Defense Attach\u00e9 of the Embassy, Col. Luigi Sambin, the Ambassador met with the main Authorities of the Autonomous Region, including the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, and many representatives of the local civil society \u2013 such as the Chaldean-Catholic Archbishop, Bashar Warda \u2013 and Italian officials working in UN agencies in the Region. On the sidelines of the mission, the Ambassador visited the Italian contingent at Camp Singara and participated as guest of honour in the roundtable organized by the Middle East Research Institute in Erbil.<\/p>\n
Ambassador Greganti was able to personally assess the impact of Italy and Kurdistan\u2019s cooperation, starting with Italy\u2019s efforts to stabilize the Region and the whole of Iraq. The talks showed great appreciation and gratitude by the local Authorities for Italy\u2019s commitment to the Global Coalition against Daesh \u2013 whose last Ministerial meeting took place in Italy in June\u00a02021 \u2013 with Italy being one of the Coalition\u2019s largest contributors in terms of troops on the ground and for having provided the training of over 130,000 Peshmerga and Iraqi soldiers. During his talks, the Ambassador confirmed the importance of the Italian-Iraqi relationship \u2013 as highlighted during Minister Luigi Di Maio\u2019s visit in December\u00a02021 \u2013 and reaffirmed Italy’s full support for the defeat of Daesh also within the NATO Mission in Iraq, whose leadership will be taken on by Italy starting from May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ambassador Maurizio Greganti travelled to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq for his first mission outside the capital city Baghdad. During his five-day visit, accompanied by the Consul in Erbil, Michele Camerota, and the Defense Attach\u00e9 of the Embassy, Col. Luigi Sambin, the Ambassador met with the main Authorities of the Autonomous Region, including […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-73424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73425,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73424\/revisions\/73425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}