7 and Egyptian ministers to Baghdad .. And state law: won the third of Arab
Date: Monday, 02/01/2012 10:16
Baghdad / term
relations have Egyptian-Iraqi remarkable development in the past, especially with the visit of the Minister of Housing and Reconstruction Mohamed Darraji to Cairo with a message from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki calls through his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Ganzouri to visit Iraq in the coming period,
In a later development it is hoped that embraces Baghdad in the near future, 7 and Egyptian ministers to discuss with them about some common issues that would benefit both parties, which was the subject of welcome from the State of Law coalition, led by al-Maliki, adding that the expansion of relations with Cairo is the gateway to the rest of the Arab States .
and the Minister for Planning and International Cooperation said that a delegation of economic sectors, the Egyptian will visit Baghdad next week to find what she called the agreements with Iraqi officials and Iraqi companies different.
and Abul-Naga said at a press conference in Cairo yesterday, said that "sectors are housing, industry, commerce, communications and information technology and agriculture, health, energy and manpower, as well as foreign. "
she said Abul-Naga said, "Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal al, assigned to the ministers concerned in seven economic sectors to visit Iraq, stressing the importance of strong participation in construction projects, construction and reconstruction of Iraq, especially after the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the direction of the government Egypt after the revolution to expand the activity of Egyptian companies in the Arab countries. "
The Abu Naga that the opportunities for the participation of Egyptian companies in development projects and reconstruction in Iraq is a "promising due to the wide size of the budget allocated by the Iraqi government" to implement these projects, which amount to five hundred billion dollars, indicating that the general budget of Iraq is "the second largest budget in the Arab countries, after Saudi Arabia."
She explained that the Egyptian Prime Minister stressed the work to expedite the entry of Egyptian companies "strongly to the Iraqi market, especially that the Iraqi side requested that a strong presence because of its Egyptian companies from the experience of and appropriate prices. "
The Minister of Housing and Reconstruction had stressed earlier on that he conveyed a message from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal al-inviting him to visit Iraq in the coming period.
and signed the Cairo and Baghdad on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding to create and establish two Egyptian IRAQIS joint for the transport and electricity generation. Egyptian investors and plans to implement several projects in infrastructure and energy in Iraq. Iraq seeks to build its economy devastated by years of war, sanctions and neglect.
The minister said Mohammed's Darraji in a press conference after his meeting with Ganzouri the end of last week, he made a call to a recent letter from al-Maliki's "Start a new page of cooperation between the two countries and finish the outstanding issues, especially file transfers yellow ". The Egyptian sources said on Iraqi assertions that Baghdad will pay dues of Egyptian workers before Ramadan this year but that the Iraqi authorities recently announced that they could not pay the wages due to lack of budget allocations in 2012. Egypt says that the number of owners of remittances zero of about 625 thousand due mostly regular employment of the earth.
For his part, spoke highly of the State of Law Coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Egyptian efforts oriented to activate economic relations with Iraq.
The MP said the Coalition and a member of the Finance Committee of parliament Abdul-Hussein Yasiri told (range), yesterday, "There is a convergence of concrete between Iraq with the Arabs through the presence of the President of the Arab League Nabil Arab to Baghdad and the issue of Iraqi initiative in solving the Syrian crisis and began to Baghdad after the departure of U.S. forces to take its Arab, especially that it is one of the founders of the University" .
He Yasiri relations with Egypt came "because it is the biggest of the biggest Arab countries and has the experience and capabilities and that this cooperation would be overlooking Iraq on Arab society."
He went by the Finance Committee "One of the factors that encouraged the Government to resort to Egypt in this period specifically, the revolution that took place there and change the regime and collapsed its free and democratic elections, "stressing that" cooperation with Cairo as one third of the Arabs, and that Cairo has expressed readiness for a long time to cooperate with the Iraqis in various types of fields. "
Regarding the recent Abu Naga on the budget Federal year 2012 Yasiri said, "is good to know the Arabs size of Iraq's budget, which evolved from year to year, and that talk of economic relations based on the size of the budget and existing employment and the extent of benefit from, and the amount and presence of oil and therefore, the Egyptian government and put all these factors into account when the girl relations with Iraq. "
He concluded MP from the state of law, "we need to Cairo in the late issue of the industry during the past years and therefore the experiences that are out there will we develop a lot in this area."
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