Robert Gates, the American secretary of defence, flew to Iraqi Kurdistan to talk to Mr Barzani after the poll.
选举后,美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨飞抵伊拉克与巴尔扎尼先生交谈。
The London and Toronto-listed company, as well as controlling resources off west Africa, also has oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan close to Emerald's in north-east Syria on the Iraq border.
The nomadic tribes live in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as they have for thousands of years. The shepherds travel from place to place and raise sheep.