Russian deputy foreign minister to Baghdad tomorrow

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Posovaluke will arrive on Friday in Baghdad to hold talks with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. The talks between Aziz and Posovaluke will evaluate progress made due to the settlement of the recent US-Iraqi crisis in last February.

They will also tackle bilateral cooperation, the oil-for-food principle especially that Russia is giving a great importance to implementing the oil-for-food principal, which is intended to ease humanitarian problems in Iraq, until the removal of economic sanctions against Iraq.