Iraq-Jordan-Egypt summit, postponed not canceled

INA – Baghdad
Parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee stressed the need for regional countries to make investments in Iraq, while noting that Iraq-Jordan-Egypt tripartite summit scheduled to be held in Baghdad, was postponed but not canceled.
"The summit is to be held in Baghdad according to the agenda and it was postponed due to immediate circumstances, but it was not canceled," Committee member Dhafir Al-Ani told the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
Al-Ani added that "the benefit of the Iraqi diplomatic movement include at various levels, including security, because terrorism, even if it received a severe blow, still exists,”
He pointed out that "the diplomatic movement at the economic level is that Iraq is rich, but the people are poor for many reasons, perhaps in the forefront of which are administrative corruption, regulations  and blackmail to which businessmen and investors. If the countries of the region do not bring their investments to Iraq, the US and European will not risk it accordingly,"
"The Arabs are the only ones who can take risks to invest in Iraq, after encouragement from their countries," Al-Ani noted.
He explained that the benefit of the diplomatic movement on the social level is that “the links between Iraq and Arab countries are historical, civilized, lineage and tribal, which make communication an important matter in the stability of Iraq and the region's security, in addition to that, the region is undergoing attempts to defuse the settlement crises that occurred in Libya, Syria and the attempts to address Yemen problem, as well as to the impending US-Iranian negotiations on the nuclear file, and Iraq is not isolated from the region. The climate of settlement and calm is expected to prevail during the next stage,"