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Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 14 November welcomed the Netherlands’ Consul General Willem Cosijn and his colleagues. They discussed the Parliament’s and KRG’s priority of carrying out reforms in many areas, including reform of the Peshmerga. They also discussed Holland’s support for strengthening Kurdistan’s agricultural sector, and developing relations with the Dutch Parliament.

A committee held a press conference on Parliament's successful court case against the violations in the amended Iraq Provincial Elections Law. The Culture Committee ran a special workshop on the Bill on Commercial Advertising. The Agriculture Committee discussed the need to formalise the status of agricultural employees. The Peshmerga Committee looked into the killing of two Peshmerga soldiers. 

Speaker Rewas Faiq on 13 November chaired a sitting of the Kurdistan Parliament at which four bills had their first readings, and MPs voted on the redistribution of committee memberships, following the creation of four new committees. Jiwan Rojbayani (KDP) discussed the successful court case overturning amendments to the Iraqi Provincial Elections Law and the danger of amendments to Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution. Karwan Gazneyi (PUK) discussed smuggling of oil and oil products, and called for transparency in oil revenue and the Erbil-Baghdad disagreements on it.

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr. Rewas Faiq on 11 November met with the Institute for International Law and Human Rights, a legislation capacity-building consultancy based in the US. They discussed support for the process of drafting legislation, and for Parliament's administration. 

The Presidency of the Kurdistan Parliament announces the order of business for the sitting of Wednesday 13th November at 11am - the seventh sitting of the autumn session of the first year of the Kurdistan Parliament’s fifth term:

The Finance and Economy Committee met Finance Ministry officials to discuss integrating and electronising the work of customs border gates. The Integrity Committee and the Finance Ministry discussed the spending of Erbil's special budget as the 2014 capital of tourism. The Relations committee will hold a workshop on a Kurdish Diaspora bill on 17 November.  

Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 10 November chaired a meeting of the heads of the parliamentary blocks to discuss the permanent committees and the distribution of MPs in the committees. The number of committees has been increased from 16 to 19, so membership of the committees needs to be decided and rearranged.

The Parliament Committee on Energy, Natural Resources, Commerce and Industry led by the chair Mr. Balen Ismaeel (Change) on 7 November visited the KRG Ministry of Electricity and met with Minister Kamal Muhammad Sadiq and several general directors and advisers.

The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Dr. Rewas Faiq on 7 November welcomed the UNSG’s Deputy Special Representative in Iraq for Political Affairs and Electoral Assistance, Alice Walpole.

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami and MPs of the Endowments and Religious Affairs Committee on 9 November participated in the Mawlood celebrations, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The Deputy Speaker and MPs attended the celebrations in Sawaf Mosque in Erbil, with KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and many cabinet ministers and government officials.