June 27, 2011
Maliki: stability of the region is linked to the security of Syria and call for complementary relationships with
Alsumaria News / Baghdad,
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Monday, that the stability of the region is linked to the stability of Syria and its security, calling for building a complementary relationship and activation of areas of cooperation with them, while expressing confidence in the ability of the Syrian people and leadership to overcome the challenges they face.
said a press statement issued today as prime minister, and received "Alsumaria News," a copy of it, "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met in his office official, today, a delegation of Syrian businessmen and discussed areas of cooperation and obstacles to the development of economic and trade relations between the two countries," noting that "al-Maliki stressed the need to activate the cooperation of all, especially in the economic and commercial."
The statement added that "The prime minister also stressed the complementary relationship between the two countries, also expressed his confidence in the ability of the Syrian people and leadership to overcome the challenges they face," asserting that "the implementation of reforms and further dialogue would be insufficient to return security and stability to Syria."
The statement added that "the stability of the region as a whole is linked to the stability of Syria and its security", calling for economists and businessmen from both sides to "work and cooperation, the implications for good on the overall relations between the two countries and two peoples." experiencing Syria in more than a hundred days a wave of mass protests calling for "freedom and democracy", and faced the regime of President Bashar al-Assad launched the security forces and the army fired on demonstrators, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,300 people and arresting thousands, and displaced thousands of families to Turkey, which has raised protest movement of international and wide, especially from the European Union and the United States, at the time accused the Syrian authorities opponents of involvement with what it called terrorist groups abroad. visited the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, the end of last May, the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, q to discuss mutual relations and was received on the land of Baghdad International Airport, his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, as previously Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otari that visited Baghdad in January 15 last, on top of high-level delegation, where he met with Iraqi officials and discussed with them bilateral relations.
He also visited the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in turn, mid-October, the Syrian capital of Damascus, in a move that led to turn the page on the differences that lasted for more than a year after accusations of Baghdad to Damascus of harboring Baathists carried out the bombings in Baghdad bloody in 2009, and met his counterpart Mohammed Naji Otari and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who discussed with him ways to develop relations of cooperation between the two countries and the need to remove all the obstacles encountered, and the search for the prospects for new cooperation strengthen bilateral relations serves the interests of the peoples involved.
In November, the two countries signed at the conclusion of meetings of the Ministerial Committee on the Syrian-Iraqi joint five memorandums of understanding for cooperation in the field of Trade, industry and export development, as was established Business Council Syrian-Iraqi in order to develop economic and trade cooperation and increasing investments between the two countries. In last August, and signed the Ministries of oil in the two minutes of the meeting on the transfer of crude oil and gas on Iraqis to the Mediterranean coast, through Syrian territory.
The two countries signed At the end of Joint Committee meetings in Baghdad in April 2009, nine memoranda of understanding and cooperation protocols and minutes of a joint in the economic, health, cultural, financial and industrial. Syria has considered since 2003, a refuge for many opposition figures of the political process and the current regime in Iraq, leaders of political parties and political bodies with different orientations, and the most prominent of these bodies Baath Party, which is prohibited according to the Iraqi constitution.
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