Egyptian- Iraqi talks

An Egyptian delegation will head for Baghdad today in an official visit to Iraq, chaired by the minister of electricity and energy Hassan Younis. The Egyptian minister said he will hold talks with his Iraqi counterpart on the possibilities of technical cooperation between the two states in the fields of electricity and untraditional energy.

The Egyptian minister said that several meetings will be held between heads of the Egyptian companies specialized in producing electrical equipment and the Iraqi officials to meet the requirements of new projects for electricity generation in Iraq.

The Egyptian minister also noted that the Egyptian electrical and mechanical installations and contracting company will put all its capabilities before the Iraqi side to take part in the implementation of energy projects in the areas of production; transport and distribution and the Egyptian experience in investing renewable energy to generating electricity will be considered especially investing the winds to this effect.

The Egyptian minister also said that during this visit the project of electricity grid of the Iraqi network with the Arab Mashreq electricity network will be discussed with the objective of availing Iraq the opportunity to exchange electrical power with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Turkey after completing the Syrian- Turkish electricity grid project in 2002.