Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani announced on Monday that Iraq had signed a strategic framework agreement with Turkey that oversees cooperation in the fields of security, energy and economy between the two countries.
This came during a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is on an official visit to Iraq.
An Iraqi government statement said that the strategic framework agreement will represent a roadmap for building sustainable strategic cooperation. The statement stressed the importance of the development path in the economic aspect, enhancing economic integration, and discussing the development of trade and economic relations, increasing trade and encouraging investment, at the official level through the joint economic committee between the two countries.
The Iraqi Prime Minister and the Turkish President agreed to seek to activate the Iraqi-Turkish Business Council, and make it a platform through which the two parties exchange their practical experiences, participate in enhancing cooperation and developing projects in the two countries, emphasize strengthening common security between the two countries, and not allow the lands of the two countries to be a starting point for aggression between them.
It was also stressed that there is a real need to establish joint Iraqi-Turkish industrial institutions inside Iraq, with joint capital, and to work to facilitate procedures for granting entry visas to Iraqis for the purposes of tourism, trade, investment, treatment and study.
The statement explained that it was agreed, during the discussions, to cooperate in the field of water, and to formulate a comprehensive participation and vision for the interests of both sides in irrigation infrastructure projects and water management, in addition to presenting joint coordination files related to agriculture, electricity, health, sports, and youth aspects.
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