Hopes were not high for Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani’s visit to Baghdad. The potential of this visit to soothe the escalating tensions between the federal government and the Kurdistan region, as well as the rest of Iraq’s crises, was questioned.
The visit, however, surpassed all expectations when an agreement on solving thorny problems between both parties through laws and the constitution was announced by the Iraqi government following the meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Barzani.