Omer Fattah Hussain

Omer Fattah Hussain
4th Prime Minister of Kurdistan (PUK)
In office
4 July 2004 – 14 June 2005
PresidentJalal Talebani
Preceded byBarham Salih
Succeeded byPosition Abolished
1st Deputy Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan
In office
1 March 2006 – 24 February 2009
PresidentMassoud Barzani
Prime MinisterNechervan Barzani
Preceded byPost Created
Succeeded byImad Ahmad Sayfour
Personal details
Born1948
As-Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
NationalityKurdish
Political partyPatriotic Union of Kurdistan (before 2009)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (after 2009)
ResidenceErbil

Omer Fattah Hussain (Born: As-Sulaymaniyah) is the former deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government[1] (KRG) in Iraq. Due to political problems in the PUK, he handed his resignation in on 24 February 2009.[2] He also served as acting Prime Minister of Jalal Talebani's Suleimaniyeh based Kurdish administration from July 2004 (when Barham Salih resigned to become Deputy Prime Minister for the Iraqi Interim Government until June 2005 with the re-unification of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous Republic.[3]

  1. ^ "Ministers of the new unified cabinet". Kurdistan Regional Government. 31 March 2009. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
  2. ^ "KRG Deputy Premier presents his resignation to Kurdistan Region President". Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. 30 March 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2009.[dead link‍]
  3. ^ "Countries I". Archived from the original on 16 July 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2010.