Kurdistan Region’s President, Masoud Barzani participated on Tuesday evening in UAE's national Day in a ceremony organized by the General UAE Consulate in Erbil, which took place in Rotana Hotel.

The foreign relations official in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) , Falah Mustafa delivered a speech on behalf of the government in which he confirmed the importance of developing relations between UAE and KRG.

UAE’s National Day is celebrated from 2nd December each year in United Arab Emirates for two days or more (usually the 2nd and 3rd). It marks the UAE's formal nationalization from the British Protectorate Treaties which ended on December 1, 1971 and the eventual, federal unification of the seven emirates in 1971 which combined to form the modern-day country, headed by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the federation's first president.