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Russia is seeking to extensive relations with Iraq
03/03/2012
Prime Minister to visit Moscow soon and calls to activate the joint agreements
BAGHDAD - Al Sabah
Moscow announced in Brgitin addressed to the President and the Ministers wish to strengthen cooperation with Baghdad in various fields.
And submitted to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a written message from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, to carry him his Special Envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov. He welcomed the Prime Minister during a meeting at his office yesterday, the first official envoy of Russian President and the delegation accompanying the development of relations between the two countries, praising the Russian president's desire to expand horizons of bilateral cooperation at all levels.
He called on al-Maliki said in a statement issued by his office had received "morning," a copy of it, and follow-up to activate the bilateral agreements, and speed up the meeting of the High Joint Committee between the two countries and to develop specific mechanisms to follow up the implementation, especially in the areas of electricity and oil. He also received the Prime Minister an official invitation from Russian President to visit Moscow, and promised to meeting them as soon as possible. Referred to he held in Moscow, in the February 11 2008, the fifth meeting of the Committee of Russian-Iraqi government for trade and economic cooperation which resulted in the signing of an agreement settling Iraq's debt to Russia loans made under the former. It also signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of cooperation in trade, economy, science and technology. It was also in late March of 2008, visit the Russian delegation to Iraq included a single Alekperov president of "Lukoil" Russian, Alexander Sultanov, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister, has been reached to form a working group to create the conditions for activating the field project, "West Qurna", under the laws of Iraq that are placed, including the new Iraqi oil law. For his part, stressed the special envoy of Russian President Russia's readiness to develop relations of cooperation and coordination between the two sides in regional and international forums. and the president had received a letter of condolence from his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev following the terrorist bombings brutal hit the capital Baghdad and several other Iraqi cities. Medvedev said in his message: "I hope you accepting sympathy and profound condolences in connection with terrorist attacks in Iraq that led to hundreds of victims among the civilian population." He continued: "These brutal crimes provoke anger and resentment and denunciation of absolute, but perpetrators of these crimes must be exposed to the heaviest penalties. We support the decisive action taken by the Iraqi authorities in order to put an end to the activities of extremists, as I assure you of our firm to strengthen comprehensive cooperation for the benefit of ensuring security and stability. "He added by saying:" We in Russia share the parents and families of the victims their grief, wishing them patience and solace and injured a speedy recovery and restoration good health. "
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