Al-Mandalawi: We support the activation of joint committees with the US regarding the strategic framework agreement

Baghdad-INA 
First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi, confirmed today, Sunday, support for activating joint committees with the United States regarding the strategic framework agreement.
 
The media office of the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament stated, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Al-Mandalawi received, in his office today, the Ambassador of the United States of America to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, and during the meeting, a number of political and economic files and issues of common interest between the two countries were discussed, and developing economic relations, especially the energy file, as well as cultural and educational cooperation between the two countries.
Al-Mandalawi stressed, according to the statement, "the importance of supporting the work of American companies operating in Iraq, as well as those wishing to obtain new investment opportunities."
As well as, he called for "activating the work of the joint committees within the strategic framework agreement, especially in the economic and financial fields, and continuing joint work in the interest of the two countries."