“I do not yet know the agenda but yes it is decided [that he will come],” Safeen Dizayee, head of the KRG’s department of foreign relations, told reporters in Erbil.
Al Monitor revealed on Wednesday that Abdi is set to visit the Kurdistan Region and meet with Barzani and other top Kurdish leaders, in a historic step towards easing regional tensions.
The invitation was extended during Barzani’s representative Hamid Darbandi’s visit to northeast Syria (Rojava), where he conveyed messages of Kurdish unity to Abdi in an effort to face the challenges in Syria.
“The situation in Syria with all the developments is a cause of concern to the international community and as we are in the region, it has a direct impact on Iraq and the Kurdistan Region,” Dizayee added.
Last month, Abdi met with a delegation from Rojava’s main opposition coalition, the Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC), in the presence of the US-led global coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS), to discuss Kurdish unity going forward.
After the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s, the Kurdish National Unity Parties (PYNK) expressed readiness to return to talks with the ENKS.
The PYNK is a coalition of 24 parties that have close ties with Rojava’s ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) and have representatives in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES).
Previously, both sides had expressed willingness to hold dialogue amid calls for a unified Kurdish front and efforts to resume talks between feuding Kurdish parties in Rojava.
PYD and ENKS signed a historic agreement in Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province in 2015 to end tensions and share power in Rojava but the deal was never implemented. Each side blames the another for the collapse of the agreement.
