Rowsch Shaways

Rowsch Nuri Shaways (Kurdish رۆژ نووری شاوەیس;  Arabic روز نوري شاويس; 1947 – 15 February 2021) was a Kurdish politician. He was the first Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan. 

He was one of Iraq's two vice presidents in the interim government in 2004. He was a Deputy Prime Minister in the government headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari and later held the same post under Nouri al-Maliki. 

He also was Deputy Prime Minister under Haider Al-Abadi from 8 September 2014 to 9 August 2015.

He was speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly in the Kurdish autonomous region. Shaways was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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Category:1947 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:Vice presidents of Iraq