The Kurdistan Region Department of Media and Information announced that a high-level delegation from the federal government, headed by Mohsen Mandalawi, will visit the Kurdistan Region and be received in the city of Zakho by Masrour Barzani, the Region’s prime minister, to hold talks with the Region’s negotiating team on shared issues.
Today, Sunday 25 October 2026, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Department of Media and Information said in a statement that a high-level delegation from the federal government, headed by Mohsen Mandalawi, the federal deputy prime minister for energy affairs, and including Bassem Mohammed, the oil minister, and Ali Saad, the electricity minister, will visit the Kurdistan Region. The delegation accompanying them also includes the chairman of the Board of Advisers, the deputy finance minister, the deputy oil minister and several other senior officials.
The statement said that the high-level federal government delegation will be received in the city of Zakho by Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
The Department of Media and Information also noted that afterward, the Baghdad delegation will meet and hold talks with the Kurdistan Regional Government’s negotiating team, which consists of Mohammed Kamal, acting minister of natural resources; Dr. Omeid Sabah, head of the Council of Ministers’ Diwan; Dr. Abdulhakim Khosrow, head of the Department of Coordination and Follow-up; Ahmad Mufti, deputy minister of natural resources; and several senior officials from the Ministry of Finance, with the aim of further coordination and achieving a better understanding and agreement regarding shared issues between the two governments.
