Iraq's President Barham Salih meets with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yazidi activist Nadia Murad at Salam Palace in Baghdad, Iraq December 12, 2018. (Reuters photo)

BAGHDAD, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi President Barham Salih on Wednesday met with Nadia Murad, an Iraqi female winner of Noble Prize from the Iraqi Yazidi minority in Baghdad, and called for ending disputes in the Middle East region to eradicate terrorism.

A statement by his office said that Salih received Murad and some families of victims of the extremist Islamic State (IS) militants, in addition to a number of members of parliament, representatives of Iraqi communities and religions, a number of ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic missions to Iraq.

Salih pledged during the meeting to personally follow up the issue of remaining Yazidi women who are still abducted by IS militants saying "Murad's cause is the cause of Iraq and every weak person who has suffered from the brutality of extremist (IS) organization," according to the statement.

Iraqi Nobel laureate Nadia Murad gestures during a meeting with Iraq's president on December 12, 2018 in Baghdad. (AFP photo)

He also "stressed the need for ending regional schisms and conflicts that fuel extremism and lead to the emergence of terrorist organizations," the statement said.

Murad delivered a speech in the meeting and said "you are the best people of peace, so let peace be upon all communities and specifically minorities. I have brought the Nobel Prize to Baghdad you (Iraqi factions) that the will of good prevailed over evil and freedom prevailed over slavery."

"I tell all Iraqis that we are all victims of terrorism, and Daesh (IS group) is a Takfiri mind," Murad said, while calling for "the Iraqi government to be a national government for all Iraqis."

She also called on the Iraqi government to form a specialized team with the anti-IS international coalition to discuss the issue of Yazidi women still missing, the statement added.

Later in the day, local media reports said that Murad was also received during the day by Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi.

On Oct. 5, the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, announced Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege as laureates of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.

Nadia Murad is a 25-year-old woman who advocates on behalf of her community and survivors of genocide.

She was born in the village of Kojo near the town of Sinjar, some 100 km west of Iraq's northern city of Mosul. Her family of the Yazidi ethno-religious minority were farmers.

Murad was among thousands of Yazidi women who were abducted in 2014 and enslaved by the self-styled Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. She had been repeatedly raped before escaping with the help of a family to safe areas outside the IS-controlled territory.

The Yazidi minority are primarily ethnic Kurds whose religion incorporates elements of many faiths. There are about 600,000 Yazidis in Iraq, with about 80 percent of them living in the towns of Sinjar and Bashiqa in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh.