Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Najafi Parliament confirms support to the partnership agreement and cooperation between Iraq and the European Union
Baghdad (news) .. Speaker confirmed Osama Abdul Aziz Najafi supporting the Iraqi parliament to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Iraq and the European Union, which was to launch negotiations on 20 of the month of November 2006, as it establishes for the first contractual relationship between the parties, and provide institutional framework General for Political Affairs and security and trade of mutual interest.
Nujaifi added during met and the delegation accompanying him an invitation, lunch, and her Vice-President of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras in the living room Presidential Parliament in Brussels that "it is good to be Iraq's relations wider and deeper with the EU, and we want to form a European pole last works to support democracies and concepts of justice and support of the oppressed peoples. "
This is the Nujaifi visit was officially to Belgium where he met with the Iraqi community there for his part, stressed-Quadras on a message of solidarity and show full respect of Iraq, pointing at the same time that the world is living in the two axes, the first being the center of pluralism The second axis of the globalized economy, and that pluralism will not only come through good partners and close to the European Group.
"It is no doubt that the Arab world is a partner soon and that Iraq is part of the Arab Group," also stressed the importance of the conclusion of programs and mechanisms of action and partnership.
and on Meanwhile, he met a number of members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives participating in the parliamentary delegation in Brussels, the President of the Arab and Iranian and Iraqi forces in the European Union, Mr. Patricia Omberta.
The two sides discussed several important topics including human rights and minority rights in Iraq, and the legal status of the MKO, the role of parliament in the consolidation democracy in Iraq, also discussed bilateral relations between Iraq and the EU.
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