Iraq keen to boost ties with India
Iraq-India, Politics, 9/3/2001

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has told a visiting Indian delegation that Baghdad is keen to further strengthen bilateral relations with New Delhi, reported the Indian news agency PTI Sunday.

"We are glad with our relation with India and we are ready to promote this relation," said President Hussein, while receiving on Saturday an 80-member Indian delegation of parliamentarians, businessmen, writers and film makers led by Deputy speaker of the upper house of the Indian parliament, Najma Heptullah.

Heptullah also delivered a letter from Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Hussein pertaining to bilateral relations and ways of promoting them, PTI said, referring to the Iraqi news agency, INA.

Heptullah presented a copy of the holy Quran as a gift to the Iraqi President during their meeting Sunday and held talks later with as many as nine ministers, including Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who underscored the importance Iraq has given to the visit.

Earlier, the Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed as-Sahaf stressed the need for boosting relations between Iraq and India in all fields, especially in information technology. Sahaf praised the positive outcome of Iraqi-Indian Committee meetings which could contribute to strengthening ties between the two countries.

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