Translation: Atour Michael

The Canadian American delegation headed by priest Majid Al Shafie, official of the One Free World Human Rights Organization, accompanied by member of the Popular Council’s presidency Fahmi Yousef and the official of the Council in Canada Madloum Marouki, visited the Kurdistan Parliament office in Dohuk province, where they were received by Dr. Ibrahim Simo member of the Kurdistan Parliament and Dr. Luis Caro member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives for the Popular Council list. During the meeting the delegation reviewed its inspection tour to the displaced families in Erbil and Dohuk, where Al Shafei talked about the suffering of the religious minorities in Iraq because of the violence committed against them by the Daesh terrorist organization. Dr Simo appreciated the delegation’s visit to the Kurdistan Region, saying that their presence is the biggest proof of the stability and security in the Region. After that the delegation visited the headquarters of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council in Dohuk and was received by Mr. Fahmi Yousef, Mr. Marouki and Louay Emmanuel assistant of foreign relations official in the Council. During the meeting, Mr. Yousef elaborated the history of the Council’s establishment, which now has members in the Kurdistan Parliament and members in the Iraqi Council of Representatives; and he added “Mr. Sarkis Aghajan has had a great merit in the founding of the Council, and he instructed the launching of the construction campaign, which included the establishment of villages, churches, monasteries and cultural institutions in the region of Kurdistan, as the Council now has strong and good relationships with the provincial government and the federal government”. For his part, Al Shafie praised the role of the PC, which seeks to install the rights of the Christians in the Kurdistan and the Iraqi constitutions. The delegation also visited the displaced Christians, Yazidis and Shabak in the province of Dohuk.