Al-Sahhaf: Achieving humanitarian response rates in Syria and Yemen is one of the goals of Iraq’s foreign policy

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  • 25-09-2023, 00:13
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    Baghdad-INA 
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarified today, Sunday, Iraq’s vision regarding the situation in Yemen and Syria, while stressing that achieving humanitarian response rates in the two brotherly countries is among the goals of Iraq's foreign policy.
     
     
    Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ahmed Al-Sahhaf, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is committed to a balanced vision in expressing the interests of the Iraqi state, and the Ministry has expressed its positions regarding the most important events in brotherly Yemen, as well as Syria and a number of Arab countries.”
    Al-Sahhaf added, "Iraq supports a Syrian-Syrian solution to the Syrian crisis, and a Yemeni-Yemeni solution to the Yemeni situation without the intervention of external parties, and with a commitment to an escalating and growing path to achieve the highest rates of humanitarian response as a result of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen and Syria."
    He pointed out that "the Iraqi Foreign Ministry expressed this vision during its participation in multilateral international meetings and the meetings of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, and it always confirms this vision and works towards achieving it, recognizing that achieving humanitarian response rates is among the goals of Iraqi foreign policy."
    Al-Sahhaf stressed that "securing the necessary sources of strength that support all parties in Yemen and the parties in Syria, to take a path that supports the unity of Syrian interests and the unity of Yemeni interests on the basis of the Yemeni-Yemeni and Syrian-Syrian solution, is the basis on which we are working."