Jawhar Namiq Salm' Salim Sorani was an Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

i politician and very respected person.

He was born in 1946 in a village close to Kalar In Iraqi Kurdistan.
He studied Economy in Baghdad, later joined the Kurdish rebels and its leader Mustafa Barzani.
In 2003 he was appointed to the Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee

Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee

The Follow Up and Arrangement Committee was an alliance of Iraqi opposition groups formed in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.-Members:The members of the committee were:...

, which brought together various opposition parties against the government of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

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He was the secretary general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party from 1999 to 2003 and the first speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly

Kurdistan National Assembly

The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament or IKP is the parliament of Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraqi Kurdistan. The IKP is made up of representatives from the various parties, lists or slates that are elected every four years to serve by the inhabitants of the provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan currently...

from 1992 to 1999.

He died in 20/21-03-2011 in Stockholm in Sweden.