Salih for Abdullahian: Iraq's security and sovereignty are indispensable for stability in the region

Baghdad-INA

President Barham Salih said Thursday, that Iraq's security and sovereignty were indispensable to the stability of the region.
 
President’s media office said in a statement received by the Iraqi news agency (INA) that "President Salih was received at his residence in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s meetings by Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdullahian.”
 
"The meeting discussed the close bilateral relations between both countries and the two neighboring peoples, ways to strengthen them in various fields, strengthen economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, and activate the understandings reached between the both sides in this concern," the statement said.
 
Salih said that "Iraqi-Iranian relations are important for both countries and the whole region,", referring to Iraq's "efforts to stabilize the region and ensure its peace, and its keenness to be an arena for meeting the interests of its people in order to work and coordinate jointly in challenging terrorism, health conditions and the threat of climate change, stressing that Iraq's stability, security and sovereignty are indispensable elements for the stability of the region."
 
For his part, the Iranian foreign minister stressed his country's "support for the security and stability of Iraq, and his country's aspiration to strengthen bilateral relations, cooperation, economic and trade," praising "the diplomatic efforts led by Iraq to ease tensions in the region."