Ahmadinejad will meet the leaders of Iraq .. Today and sign security and economic agreements

Ahmadinejad will meet the leaders of Iraq .. Today and sign security and economic agreements



Iraqi parliament considering Zebari's remarks on the difficulty of preventing the flow of arms across Iraq to Syria

 
 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) during a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Khodair al (right) in Baghdad yesterday (a .
Baghdad: Hamza Mustafa
in the last 24 days in office, he began to Iranian President outgoing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Iraq on a two-day, where he met yesterday senior Iraqi officials, Ahmadinejad said in a brief statement to reporters, after talks with Iraqi Vice President Khudair Khuzai, in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad: «us and on our common message, a message and offers stability and security, as well as a message of peace». Ahmadinejad stressed that «Iraqi relations - Iranian distinct and exceptional relations, and relations have roots, cultural and civilizational well as beliefs heavenly», adding that «the role of the two countries also promote culture in the region.

The ceremony took place at official reception for the Iranian president at Baghdad International Airport transported TV «Iraq» government directly on the air, but the bloc «Iraq», led by Iyad Allawi, announced that Ahmadinejad is not welcome, as announced by the Foreign Relations Committee in the Iraqi parliament that they decided to inquire Ministry State to query for information made by the Minister Hoshyar Zebari to the newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat days ago, in which he stressed that the Iraqi authorities can not prevent the flow of weapons and fighters across Iraq to Syria.

Ahmadinejad will sign on his last visit outside his country a number of security and economic agreements, described the importance of, and sensitive, especially in the field of oil.

Ahmadinejad is accompanied by a large number of ministers, most notably the foreign and interior ministers and oil. At a time when filed Ahmadinejad's two terms in office in Iran, Iraq, the Baghdad visit on a date with a planned visit by the Iranian president-elect Hassan Rohani. In this context stressed Ali al-Moussawi, media advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told «Middle East» that «the visit of President Ahmadinejad was deferred already since last year, where he was President Jalal Talabani has sent him a formal invitation to visit Iraq, but the circumstances of Talabani's health prevented without completion of the visit, pointing out that «This visit is a state visit and not a farewell visit, as it is though outgoing but there are good relations between Iraq and Iran as two.

Al-Moussawi said that «the good relationship between Iran and Iraq would reflect positively on the stability of the region. He added that «this visit confirms the continuity of relations between Baghdad and Tehran, at various levels, especially in this circumstance that pass by the area, and what is happening in Syria, where he is now seeing Iraq to resolve the Syrian issue is the closest to reality than any other vision».

The Iranian Vice President for International Affairs Ali Said if confirmed his part that the volume of trade between Tehran and Baghdad «exceeded the $ 13 billion dollars», and pointed out that «great efforts» made by both sides to expand economic ties between the two, noting that his country was issued at the moment to Iraq «25 billion cubic meters of gas.

The agency quoted the Iranian Fars news agency quoted him as saying that «the value of the balance of trade between Iran and Iraq reached the highest levels», pointing out that «the great efforts made by both sides to expand the volume of bilateral trade and economic ties between them.

And between the Iranian vice president that «Iraq currently imports from Iran more than 25 billion cubic meters of gas», pointing out that «Iranian President Ahmadinejad is preparing in the meantime to visit Iraq to hold talks with Iraqi officials to expand bilateral ties between the two countries».

Relations between Iraq and Iran, which fought a fierce war for eight years between 1980 and 1988, a solid strategic cooperation in all fields in the states of Ahmadinejad, especially the political and economic development. Ahmadinejad was the first Iranian president to visit Iraq since the 1979 Islamic revolution, in March 2008.

In the meantime, announced the Foreign Relations Committee in the Iraqi Parliament that it had decided to approach the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inquire about the information available to it and that prompted Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to release statements regarding the transfer of weapons across Iraq to Syria in Iraq can not control it.

A statement by the Commission on the eve of a visit by to Baghdad now that «the Foreign Relations Committee held (the day before yesterday) Wednesday meeting chaired by Deputy Hamoudi, and the presence of 13 members of the Committee, discussed the remarks Zebari in which he referred to the transfer of weapons across Iraq to Syria can not be Iraq's control, as well as the presence of chemical weapons in the possession of the Syrian opposition, the flow of Iraqis to fight in Syria ».

The Committee recommended that the ministry approached to inquire about the available information and that led to these statements.

The newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat quoted Zebari as saying on the thirteenth of July present it is not possible for Iraq to stop the flow of weapons and fighters to Syria, a statement which provoked reactions of a large-scale in Iraq.

At the time of the controversy is still going on inspection of Iranian planes flying to Syria has denied the Iraqi Ministry of Transport that there will be fear or fear of inspections of Iranian aircraft landing at Baghdad airport.

The Karim Nouri adviser and Transport Ministry in a press statement that «the orders issued by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Transport require airports minute inspections of aircraft coming from countries trying to provide Syria with weapons such as Russia and Iran. But he stressed that «the Department of Transportation can not inspect all incoming flights from these countries, but depending on the information and intelligence coordination with the security services in Iraqi airports. He pointed out that despite the presence of devices to detect weapons in small numbers, they do not prevent the detection of weapons that speaks volumes for media access to the Assad regime through Baghdad.

He Nouri said Iraq has so far not control any weapons smuggled through airports, denying the existence of any interventions destinations partisan on the work of the Joint Committee, which includes both the intelligence and national security, as well as airport security, emphasizing that they operate independently was not subject to or belonging to any third party, he said.

 




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