Today .. Maliki and Erdogan heads the meeting of the Supreme Council of the strategic cooperation Foreign Affairs: 40 agreements and memoranda of understanding signed between Iraq and Turkey
BAGHDAD - morning
Headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Turkish counterpart in Baghdad today, the second meeting of the Supreme Council for strategic cooperation. These moves coincide with the orientation of the signing of 40 agreements and memoranda of understanding among the more than 9 ministries and institutional investors with their Turkish counterparts.
The Turkish Prime Minister begins official visit to Baghdad today to meet the Prime Minister's call to activate the strategic cooperation between the two countries.
It is hoped that two-day visit, on a preliminary declaration of the Association Council between Baghdad and Ankara, the Turkish Prime Minister has visited Baghdad in July 2008, when he met in Baghdad, the President and the Minister, in addition to a large number of officials, the visit also paved for the development of cooperation and relations between the the two countries.
He is also scheduled to take place during Erdogan's visit to the country, discuss the water issue and the importance of ensuring that Iraq's share of water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, especially after the government include the strategic cooperation agreement a special item with water.
Indicated that the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, had confirmed the "morning" recently, "The indicators demonstrate the Turkish prime minister's attempt to raise the idea of a direct meeting between President Assad and al-Maliki or dialogues at the highest level of foreign ministers, as they can put the case by Erdogan during his visit to Baghdad, "adding that" Erdogan's visit will discuss several issues including, "File PKK (pkk) with the attempts and measures to secure the return of the party members to Turkey, and the development of economic relations, in addition to addressing the needs of Iraq's water in exchange for Turkey's needs of oil and expand trade relations to more than $ 20 billion, as well as to finalize the strategic cooperative agreement between the two countries.
The Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a press statement this week: "It will visit Iraq at the head of a large ministerial delegation to activate the Supreme Council for the strategic cooperation between the two countries and joint sub-committees established by the Council," and expressed hope that the signing of dozens of joint agreements with the Iraqi side in various areas.
Erdogan's visit to the country, the culmination of a rapid convergence in the relations in the capital, Ankara, killing 40 on the completion of the recent memorandum of understanding and agreement in the fields of energy, construction and housing, environment, forestry, water, security and counter-terrorism, health, trade, agriculture, transport, communication and transportation during the First Ministerial Meeting of the Supreme Council for the strategic cooperation of the Iraqi - Turkish which was held on 17 and 18 of the last month.
In Baghdad, too, was held yesterday at the opening session of senior officials and experts of the Supreme Council for the strategic cooperation of Iraq - Turkey.
The Iraqi side was headed by Undersecretary of however Abbawi while the Turkish side was headed by Ambassador Murat Aozglic.
Abawi stressed in his opening remarks the need for intensive work between the two sides and accomplish more than 40 agreements and memorandums of understanding in various aspects of bilateral cooperation between more than 9 ministries and institutional investors with their Turkish counterparts, have participated the Iraqi side, representatives of various ministries, particularly the external and internal trade and water resources and oil.
For his part, said in a statement received Aozglic "morning," a copy of, expressed his thanks and gratitude to the people and Government of Iraq for their warm reception and hospitality given to the Turkish delegation in Baghdad, stressing the importance of communication to the finalization of memorandums of understanding and agreements signed during the visit of Turkish Prime Minister the presence of President al-Maliki.
The statement said that representatives of concerned ministries held meetings after the opening session, during which trading and discuss the ideas and proposals in the formulas to the completion of these agreements, noting that the meetings will continue between the two sides today.
