Mohammad Rauf the editor-in-chief of Draw Media at the U.S. Department of State, with a number of the US officials concerned with the Iraqi and the Kurdistan Region's affairs, discussed the issues; (elections in the Kurdistan Region, the issue of oil and oil smuggling, the state journalism and assassination of journalists, especially the assassination of two journalists by Turkey).

During his meeting with Jacob D. Surface, of the Iraqi affair, Jeffrey Zimmer, Program Officer, Michael Day, of the Kurdistan Region's affair at the U.S. Department of State, and several other officials, Mohammad of Rauf the editor-in-chief of Draw Media, presented the issues of freedom of expression, oil smuggling and elections with detailed graphs, data and statistics at the US State Department