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Putin calls for lifting restrictions on trade with Iraq
10/10/2012 - 14:01
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Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday, to lift restrictions on trade with Iraq, expressing at the same time hope to remove restrictions against Russian businessmen in the country.
Putin said in a statement released today on the sidelines of a meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Moscow, and got "Alsumaria News" copy, "if it were to lift restrictions on trade between Iraq and Russia, the accelerated pace," noting that "the intent of the restrictions on supply of pipe and use. "
Putin expressed hope that "the Iraqi government to remove restrictions that hamper the work of Russian businessmen in Iraq."
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, earlier on Wednesday (10 October 2012), that the gates of Iraq are open to Russian companies to work in the country, calling for increased educational opportunities for Iraqi students in Russian universities, as shown Putin his country's desire to expand its cooperation with Iraq in the commercial and military spheres.
Signed and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, on Tuesday (9 October 2012), with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov a memorandum of understanding for the political and diplomatic cooperation between the two countries, with Iraq's request to help Russia for his release from the remainder of the provisions of Chapter VII.
Russia announced Tuesday that it has signed deals to sell weapons worth $ 4.2 billion with Iraq, to become its biggest arms supplier after the United States.
The Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported that the arms deal valued at $ 4.2 billion and is being negotiated include the MiG-29 aircraft, and 30 attack helicopter Mi -28, and 42 Pantsir - S 1, a missile systems - atmosphere.
And arrived Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Moscow, the first on Monday (8 October 2012), at the head of the delegation of political and economic official visit at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Maliki confirmed before leaving Baghdad that the visit will witness the signing of agreements in the fields of armament and energy, also pointed out that Iraq meets with Russia in the need to find a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis.
And associated Iraq historic ties with Russia back to the forties of the last century, when established diplomatic relations between Iraq and the Soviet Union at the time, and Iraq became later the most important importers of military equipment Soviet, and they have evolved over the past years, especially in the field of investments in oil and electricity, winning Russian companies in licensing rounds for oil and gas investment in a number of Iraqi provinces.
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