Iraq seeks opening investment prospects for European companies

INA - BAGHDAD 

Prime Minister Muhammed S. Al-Sudani affirmed on Saturday, Iraq's desire to open investment horizons for European companies.

PM Al-Sudani met at his residence, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, on the sidelines of his participation in the Munich Security Conference, session 59, according to the media office of the Prime Minister statement received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

During the meeting, ways of strengthening cooperation and friendship relations between Iraq, Denmark and other European Union countries were reviewed, and opportunities for joint work in the economic fields and development partnership, as well as facing the challenges caused by climate change and global crises. They also discussed "the importance of cooperation in the field of fighting terrorism and extremism and the role played by Iraq to establish security and stability in the region."

The Prime Minister expressed "Iraq's desire to open investment horizons for European companies, after the economic reforms worked to provide a suitable environment for investment and economic partnerships in the fields of energy and gas exploitation."

Al-Sudani stressed, "The importance of combating financial and administrative corruption as one of the government's priorities, and Iraq's desire for the cooperation of friendly countries in the field of recovering Iraqi funds and those wanted by the judiciary and law."