[16:06] 12/Jan/18
Irbil - 18 January to January (PNA): launched on Wednesday in the city of Erbil Trade Forum between the Kurdistan region, Iraq and Turkey with the participation of hundreds of companies Kurdish, Turkish, Iraqi, and the presence of Zafar Caglayan, Minister of Foreign Trade Affairs in the Turkish government and Sinan Chalabi, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Regional Government Iraqi Kurdistan.
In a speech during the closing session of the Forum said the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Turkish government that his country seeks to develop its relationship to trade with the region of Kurdistan and Iraq and said that trade volume last year reached $ 12 billion, Iraq, the country's second Alakther exporter of Turkish products, and we want to reach that figure to more than $ 20 billion.
Turkish minister also said that Turkish companies operating in the field of contracting, I got on projects with more than two billion dollars of Iraq's Kurdistan region, said: I got Turkish companies on projects in the field of construction in the Kurdish region, the amount of two billion text of one billion dollars last year.
Turkish minister also noted that they raised the number of Dblomasém in trade and economy in the Turkish embassy and consulates in Iraq and said: We have during this period to increase the number of commercial and economic advisers in the Baghdad embassy and consulates in other areas of Iraq such as Basra and Arbil.
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