As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.