Jordanian PM directs to facilitate regulations for Iraqi investors

politics

17-01-2022, 20:15

INA - BAGHDAD

Ambassador Haider Al-Adari announced on Monday, the directives of the Jordanian Prime Minister, Bishr Al-Khasawneh, to facilitate the obstacles facing Iraqi investors in the Kingdom, according to what the laws and instructions allow.

Al-Adhari met Al-Khasawneh, accompanied by the Iraqi commercial attaché Nabil Al-Karbouli, the head of the Iraqi Business Council Majid Al-Saadi, a number of council members and prominent Iraqi investors and industrialists, according to a statement by the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Amman received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Al-Adhari discussed with Al-Khasawneh the economic relations between the two countries and the investment file in particular, especially with regard to Iraqi investors in the Kingdom, in the meeting attended by the Jordanian Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Youssef Al-Shamali, the Minister of Investment Khairy Amro and the head of Jordan Chamber of Industry Fathi Al-Jaghbir.

”The atmosphere of the meeting was positive, as the Jordanian Prime Minister directed to support efforts that enhance economic cooperation between the two countries and to overcome the obstacles faced by Iraqi investors in the Kingdom, as permitted by relevant laws and instructions,” included the statement.

For his part, Al-Khasawneh stressed that "King Abdullah II attaches the utmost importance to investment, and seeks to strengthen the complementary relationship with Iraq and within the framework of tripartite cooperation between Jordan, Egypt and Iraq in various fields, hoping to accelerate the pace of completion of joint projects between the two countries more and more," noting that ”the Jordanian Industries Exhibition, which was held recently in Baghdad, translates the strength of economic relations between the two brotherly countries,”