Swedish group

Yesterday we had a dinner and a long evening with a big group from Sweden. It was personnel from all Sweden working with immigration and integration issues from Sweden. It was an interesting evening with many meetings.

It is always a pleasure to meet people that have never visited Kurdistan and to hear about all their positive experiences. Especially the group of Sami people from Lapland with members from the municipal. There was a big discussion about how similar the Lappish culture and the Kurdish culture are. There was a promise on cooperation in fields of sports, radio and media. Now it is up to paperwork in Sweden and us in Kurdistan to make this reality.

Lappish and Kurdish culture are very similar and close to the nature. The group discussed how they had been in the Kurdistan parliament and saw the impressing garden inside the parliament with waterfall and green plants and how similar this was with the Lappish Parliament building that soon is going to be built in Kiruna city in Lapland. It was amazing to think about that and also how similar the Lappish flag and the Kurdish flag are.

The four colors of the Sami flag (red, blue, green and yellow) are the Sami colors. The circle is intended to symbolize both the moon and the sun, the blue part representing the moon and the red part the sun.