KurdistanObserver.com Name of Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces Changed June 27, 2007 PUK Media Jabar Yawer, the official spokesman for the Kurdistan Region Guard Forces, held a news conference at the Peshmerga Forces Ministry office in Erbil, the Capital of Kurdistan Region, on Sunday.During the conference, Yawer declared that after a visit of the delegation of KRG chaired by PM Nechirvan Barzani to Baghdad and their meeting with the officials of Iraqi Federal Government, UK and US Embassies, it has been decided to transfer the tasks of Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces to Kurdistan Region Guard Forces. Yawar also stated that after a delegation of the Iraqi Federal Government visited Kurdistan Region and after their meeting with the military officials of Kurdistan and on attendance of a Multy-National Forces' delegation they reached to an agreement on several points which includes organizing and cooperation between Kurdistan Region Guard Forces and the Iraqi Army Forces, their number ,and their condition, allocating a budget to the Kurdistan Region Guard Forces by the Iraqi Government .The agreement singed by the President of Kurdistan Region, and then to be signed by the Iraqi PM in Baghdad." After the agreement Kurdistan Region Guard Forces will not be a part of the Iraqi Army, but would be only belonging to Kurdistan Region and will be under the supervision of Ministry of Peshmerga Forces. The General Commander of Kurdistan Region Guard Forces will be the President of Kurdistan Region. The Deputy Commander of Kurdistan Region Guard Forces will be the deputy of Kurdistan Region's President," Yawar added."We also agreed that the Multy-National Forces, as they train the Iraqi Armey Forces, to train the Kurdistan Region Guard Forces. The recruitment in the Kurdistan Region Guard Forces, like the system in Iraqi Armey Forces, to be voluntary and after this agreement the condition of the Kurdistan Region Guard Forces will be better than before," Yawer said as well.       Copyright © 2002, Kurdistan Observer