Barham Salih

Barham Ahmad Salih (Arabic: د برهم احمد صالح, DMG Barham Saalih, . Kurdish د بهرههم ئهحمهد ساڵهح, Berhem Saalih, . * 1960 in Sulaymaniyah ) is an Iraqi politician.

Life

Barham Salih studied civil engineering at Cardiff University, and Statistics and Computational Modeling at the University of Liverpool ( doctorate). He is one of the leaders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK ), which he joined in 1976. He is said to have very good relations with the U.S., because he, inter alia, Ten years representative of the PUK in the U.S. was. In April 2002, he survived an assassination attempt at his home in Sulaimaniya.

After the local elections in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in 2009, Barham Salih was elected in September 2009, the new prime minister of the regional government.

Former positions

  • PUK spokesman in London, 1985 - 1991
  • Representative of the PUK and the Kurdish regional government in North America in Washington, DC, 1991 - 2001
  • Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (after PUK version, in Sulaimaniya ) 21 January 2001-June 2004
  • Deputy Prime Minister in the Iraqi Interim Government, June 2004 - May 2005
  • Minister of Planning and Development in the first freely elected government of Iraq, from May 2005 to May 2006
  • Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
  • National Security Minister (acting)
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