Netherlands to continue training Peshmerga: Dutch FM

By Arif Yusuf</p> <p>ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – The Netherlands will continue training Peshmerga forces loyal to northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said Tuesday.</p> <p>Blok made the assertion at a joint press conference held with KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani in Erbil, the KRG’s administrative capital.</p> <p>The Netherlands, Blok confirmed to reporters, would continue training Peshmerga officers at Erbil’s Training Coordination Center.</p> <p>“We will also provide military advisers as part of our joint reform plan for the region’s security sector,” he said.</p> <p>Barzani, for his part, said the KRG had also asked the Netherlands for assistance in the local food and agriculture sector.</p> <p>A delegation from the local private sector, he added, would soon visit the Netherlands to take part in a seminar.</p> <p>In September, the Dutch government announced plans to deploy 50 soldiers to northern Iraq to secure areas recently liberated from the Daesh terrorist group.</p> <p>The Dutch foreign minister arrived in Erbil from Baghdad earlier Monday as part of a tour of northern Iraq.</p> <p>According to Iraq’s federal system, all agreements between foreign states and the KRG must first be approved by Baghdad.

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