Jordanian prime minister confers with Iraqi foreign minister

The Jordanian prime minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb on Tuesday in Amman met with the Iraqi foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf who arrived in Amman on Monday evening.

The two sides discussed means of strengthening bilateral relations in the oil and commercial fields and matters relating to signing the free trade agreement and efforts to lift the siege imposed on Iraq as well as issues to be debated at Amman's forthcoming Arab summit.

Abu al-Ragheb stressed Jordan's care to lift the siege imposed on Iraq and his assertion to maintain Iraq's territorial integrity and exerting all efforts to eliminate inter- Arab differences before convening the Amman Summit conference in order to ensure its success.