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Pakistan's, Zardari, urges stronger ties with Iraq ...

March 15, 2010

Zardari urges stronger ties with Iraq

Islamabad to reopen its embassy in Baghdad


بغداد – متابعة عادل حمود BAGHDAD - A follow-up just Hammoud

Search Iraq's ambassador to Islamabad, Qais Subhi al-Yacoubi with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, on Saturday, ways to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time when Pakistan is preparing to reopen its embassy in Baghdad.

The Pakistani newspaper The Nation quoted a spokesman for President Zardari said that Pakistan values the friendship and brotherhood that collects in Iraq and wished to strengthen and enhance cooperation between the two sides in various fields.

The president of Pakistan on the hope that the Iraqi Ministerial Committee - Pakistan's newly-formed joint cooperation in various fields of common interest.

To that Islamabad is preparing to reopen its embassy in Iraq which had been closed since 2003 and the movement of the Daily Times of Pakistan quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the government has decided to restore full diplomatic relations with Baghdad after the security situation improves and sources said that the Pakistani authorities is working on a study of several the names of candidates for the post of ambassador in Baghdad after the reopening of the embassy in intensive consultations under way to select a suitable place to house the embassy.

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