"We are trying to promote our economic future and investment opportunities all over the world," Rahman said, noting that the KRG endorses business relations with neighboring countries, Turkey, Iran and the Gulf states. "[W]e talk to [all] about investment and trade, but we have also always looked further afield both to Europe and the United States. Very recently we’ve also started to think about the Far East, and by that I mean Japan, China, South Korea."
Rahman noted that some Russian oil companies have concluded contracts in the Kurdistan region.
"We are very pleased with that," she exclaimed. "We also have a representative office in Moscow, so the equivalent of my office here we have in Moscow, and I’m sure they speak to many business people in Russia."
The Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region in the country's north is a part of the historic Kurdish region, parts of which also belong to Syria, Iran and Turkey. The region has its own government, parliament and armed forces.
