Al-Kadhimi: Iraq is building cooperative relations with all international partners

INA – Baghdad
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi confirmed on Saturday, that Iraq is continuing to build cooperation relations with all international partners.
"Al-Kadhimi received a phone call from French President Emmanuel Macron, and discussed the frameworks of bilateral relations between Iraq and France, politically, economically and culturally and in other areas, as well as ways to enhance and advance them in a way that serves the interests of the Iraqi and French people," Al-Kadhimi's media office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
"The overall regional and international situation and ways to enhance calm and stability were discussed, as well as issues of common concern,” he added, "Iraq is continuing to build balanced relations of cooperation and exchange with all international partners, far from the policy of escalation,"
For his part, the French President praised "Iraq's positions in this field and the efforts of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi that are in the interest of strengthening international security and stability," stressing his country's support for Iraq and the desire to expand cooperation, “especially economically, and the desire of French companies to invest in Iraq in various sectors,”