October 28, 2010Shahristani: Iraq will be a major source of energy security of Japan
بغداد ـ الصباح Baghdad morning
Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said Iraq would be a major source of secure sources of energy that you need to Japan. A source at the Oil Ministry in a press statement: that al-Shahristani said during a meeting with Assistant Foreign Minister, Ambassador of the Economic Cooperation Japanese Mitsow Sakaba Japan's interest in energy sources in Iraq,
They need large quantities of them to rotate the wheel of industrial projects and investment. He added that Iraq would provide a need for Japan's crude oil and liquid gas to cover their need, he said, adding that the Japanese are keen to develop relations with Iraq through the establishment of economic partnership permanent.
He said al-Shahristani to Japan to help Iraq to develop some oil fields, along with its quest to build facilities to support the oil industry in the country through a Japanese loan of five billion dollars.
For his part, new Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassador of Japan, according to the source, Japan is ready to provide the necessary support for the advancement of the oil industry in the country and promote prospects of cooperation between the two countries, expected to witness the next stage of further cooperation, especially in the oil and energy.
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