Iraqi- Iranian higher committee on trade, economic cooperation starts

Works of the Iraqi- Iranian joint committee for trade and economic cooperation started in Baghdad yesterday.

The chairman of the Iraqi side to the meeting Muhammad Mahdi Saleh said at the beginning of the talks that Iraq seeks to develop bilateral cooperation relations with Iran in all fields. He indicated that the visit of the Iranian delegation to Baghdad will "be an important step to building fruitful cooperation between the two neighboring states."

Saleh said that both Iran and Iraq enjoy vast and tremendous potentials that would give a push forward to the march of c-operation in the trade, economic, agriculture, health, services, transport and telecommunications sector between the two countries. For his part, the Iranian trade minister Muhammad Shareyat Madari described the visit of the Iranian delegation to Iraq as an important step to fostering trade and economic relations between the two countries in the service of bilateral interests.

The meetings of the committee which had started its works in Baghdad several days ago at the level of technical committees, will discuss means of expanding and increasing bilateral cooperation relations on the trade, industrial, agricultural, tourism, health and transport fields.

This is he first time this committee meets at the ministerial level since the normalization of relations between the two countries.