Iraq to use the Lebanese ports

Iraq has announced it wants to rely on the Lebanese ports in importing commodities and goods coming to it in the framework of the "oil for food" program.

During his meeting with a Lebanese delegation, the Iraqi minister of commerce Muhammad Mahdi Saleh said that the volume of trade relations between the two countries is currently estimated at USD 680 million and that Iraq wants to develop trade and economic relations between the two countries and to use the Lebanese ports to receiving its imports.

However, the Lebanese trade delegation which is composed of 55 political, economic, industrial and agricultural figures arrived on Sunday in Baghdad in a visit aims at discussing means of developing trade co-operation relations between Iraq and Lebanon.