Turkey agreed to resume oil exports, announces Iraqi Ambassador to Ankara

Baghdad-INA
The Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Ankara, Majid Al-Lajmawi, announced today, Thursday, that Turkey has agreed to resume oil exports from the Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline.

Al-Lajmawi said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), “The Turkish side agreed to immediately resume oil exports from the Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline."

This came in the wake of his meeting with the Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar o, today, Wednesday.

Bayraktar confirmed that "the Turkish technical teams have completed the technical and logistical procedures for resuming the pumping of Iraqi oil through the pipeline," explaining that "the issue is now in the custody of the Iraqi side.

In turn, the ambassador expressed the appreciation of "the government and people of Iraq for this Turkish step," expressing "Iraq's readiness to resume oil exports as quickly as possible."

The statement stressed, "The resumption of oil exports will contribute significantly to opening the horizons of Iraqi-Turkish relations and strengthening them in a way that secures the common interests of the two neighboring countries and achieves development."