He signed the first major oil contract with Exxon Mobil after drafting and amending a new oil law. He survived the first motion of no confidence in Iraqi Kurdistan following the 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq. His term was marked by turbulence with the rise of an opposition ( Movement for Change) to challenge the government while his own party was scrambling to stay together after losing the stronghold city of Sulaymaniyah. He succeeded Nechervan Idris Barzani as the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government. Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Government īarham Salih spearheaded the Kurdistani List in the 2009 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election. military for sending troops into Iraq, and acknowledged that many Kurds desire independence. Salih appeared on The Colbert Report on 10 June 2009, broadcast from Baghdad, and was interviewed by the host.
Representing the Iraqi Government, he launched the International Compact with Iraq – an initiative of mutual commitment between Iraq and the international community to help Iraq in meeting its obligations of "building a prosperous, democratic and federal country, in peace with itself and with the region and the world". He was assigned the task of heading the PUK Office in the United States.Īfter the fall of the Ba'athist regime in 2003, he became Deputy Prime Minister in the Interim Iraqi Government in mid-2004, Minister of Planning in the Transitional Government in 2005, and Deputy Prime Minister in the elected Iraqi Government ( Nouri al-Maliki's Cabinet) in charge of the economic portfolio and Head of the Economic Committee. He was elected a member of the PUK leadership at the first party conference when Iraqi Kurdistan was liberated from the Ba'ath Party following the Persian Gulf War. He continued to study and obtained a Doctorate degree in Statistics and Computer Applications in Engineering from the University of Liverpool in 1987. In addition to the political struggle, he finished his university studies and received a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering and Construction from the Cardiff University in 1983. Career Deputy Secretary General of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan īarham Salih joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in late 1976 where he became a member of the PUK department of Europe, and was in charge of PUK foreign relations in London. Salih is married to Sarbagh Salih, the head and founding member of the Kurdish Botanical Foundation and a women's rights activist. Once released, he finished high school and left Iraq for the United Kingdom to flee continued persecution. He was arrested in 1979 by the Ba'athist regime twice on charges of involvement in the Kurdish national movement by taking some photos of protesters in Sulaimaniya city and spent 43 days in detention in a Special Investigation Commission prison in Kirkuk where he was tortured.
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