Free trade area between Iraq, Saudi Arabia

The Iraqi minister of industry and melting Maysar Raja Fallah has unveiled a move and an agreement to found a free trade zone between his country and Saudi Arabia in order to promote trade exchange between the two states.

In a press statement issued on Monday by the Saudi daily Okaz, the Iraqi minister said that Iraq wants that and will have bilateral meetings with the Saudi minister of industry Abdullah Yamani for further cooperation and the agreement to develop industrial cooperation between the two states.

The Iraqi minister arrived on Sunday in Riyadh to preside over his country's delegation to the meetings of the ministerial council of the Arab organization for industrial development which holds its 17th session in Riyadh on tomorrow and lasts for two days.