Barzani approves draft to recognize Armenian as official language

Barzani approves draft to recognize Armenian as official language –

President of the Northern Iraqi Kurdish Autonomy Masoud Barzani has passed a draft law on declaring Turkmen, Assyrian and Armenian as official languages in the country after Kurdish and Arabic.

The state news agency Armenpress qutoes Speaker of Kurdish Parliament Tariq Jawhar as telling Rudaw.net that the bill was adopted by the Kurdish Parliament on October 29 and was submitted to the president a day later. After ratifying the document, Barazni sent it to the Government for a further approval