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Japan foreign ministry changes travel
advice to Kurdistan Region
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February 8, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- The
Japanese foreign ministry yesterday announced that
it has lowered its travel warning for the Kurdistan
Region.
The decision came after H.E. Gotaro Ogawa,
ambassador in charge of reconstruction assistance to
Iraq, visited the Kurdistan Region in December to
review the situation on the ground.
Ambassador Ogawa met Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir,
Director of the KRG Office of Foreign Relations. The
ambassador and
his delegation also met several other ministers, the
governors of Erbil and Sulaimaniyah, and members of
both provinces’
chambers of commerce.
Ms Asako Kiyoshi, senior regional coordinator of the
foreign ministry’s Middle East division, said, “I
hope that our mission [to Iraq in December] would be
a launching pad to further consolidate the existing
amicable relations between our two countries,
especially the relationship with Kurdistan Region.”
Denmark’s foreign ministry also
changed its
travel advice for the Kurdistan Region
yesterday. Over the past year the governments of
Austria, the UK, Sweden and Germany have similarly
changed their travel warning to reflect the Region’s
higher level of security and stability.
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