The Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council stresses the need to proceed with the concluded agreements

Baghdad - INA

The Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council stressed, today, Thursday, the necessity of proceeding with all the procedures agreed upon in the memorandums of understanding.

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers stated, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the Iraqi-Saudi Coordination Council held a meeting today, Thursday, headed by the Chairman of the Council, Minister of Finance Ali Abdul Amir Allawi, to discuss and discuss the outputs of the sub-committees emerging within the Council, and the results of the joint meetings between the Iraqi and Saudi sides.

The Council stressed, according to the statement, "the great interest of the Iraqi government in the bilateral relations linking the Republic of Iraq with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in all fields, and the need to proceed with all the technical and legal procedures that have resulted in memoranda of understanding and framework agreements concluded between the two countries, and the steps that have been implemented to the reality on the ground, and the future stages of activating bilateral understandings.

The statement pointed out that "the members of the Council discussed the outcomes of the joint meetings during mutual visits and meetings via closed circuit television, with regard to real partnerships in the fields of energy, industry, agriculture, sports, scientific and educational cooperation, as well as the files of transport, border crossings, ports, banking and customs cooperation.".

He continued, "The members of the Council also reviewed the preparation for holding the Business Council forum later, to discuss the files of joint investment projects, and the presentation of the proposed ones by the Iraqi side, and the preparation for holding the joint meeting between the Iraqi and Saudi sides.".

The meeting was attended, according to the statement: "The National Coordinator of the Council, the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, and the ministers of oil, planning, transport, agriculture, youth, sports, industry, minerals, higher education, scientific research and culture, as well as the undersecretaries of the ministries of finance and interior, the governor of the Central Bank, the head of the Arab department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Iraqi ambassador to Riyadh".