Links ~ Iraq and Jordan15/10/2011
Signing of a memorandum of understanding for cooperation between Iraq and Jordan
BAGHDAD - Al Sabah
signed Iraq, Jordan, on Friday, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation between the two countries in many areas, the report said the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Jordan that was lay the cornerstone and true in several topics of interest to the two peoples.
And Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi during a joint news conference with the Minister of Industry and Trade of Jordan, President of the Jordanian side in the bilateral Iraqi-Jordanian Joint Hani Mulki held in the building of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, that he "discussed with Mulki during the past two days in the light of the work of the Committee files with the relationship that covers most of the Iraqi ministries from the Ministry of Electricity, agriculture, industry, trade and health and education and culture and the various relevant ministries.
"Issawi said that "The meeting culminated in the signing of the bilateral joint report and the memorandum of understanding on trade between Iraq and the Kingdom of Jordan until the completion of the signing of the agreement is before the House of Representatives," asserting that "cooperation between the two countries will reflect positively on the institutions in all ministries."
For his part, Minister of Industry and Trade of Jordan Hani Mulki that "the development of the basic unit of the real and the subject of industry, trade and cultural exchange, scientific and subject consular and topics of interest to the two peoples."
The Mulki that "the two countries do not embark in cooperation in a vacuum because there is a historic and long established, we are here in Iraq to complete the process for the benefit of two peoples. "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has met in his office on the evening of yesterday, Minister of Industry and Trade of Jordan Hani Mulki, and it was agreed during the meeting to sign a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the coming days, according to a statement issued by his press office has received the" morning "a copy of it, stressing the need for continued cooperation between the two countries in various fields.
Linked to Jordan and Iraq to the Convention on the establishment of a free trade area during the year 2009, did not completed its constitutional processes, were also signed a joint agreement in 2008 to provide Jordan with crude oil at a rate of 10 thousand barrels per day has been extended for three years and ends in the year.
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