Activating the memorandum of understanding between Iraq and Iran

Activating the memorandum of understanding between Iraq and Iran



07/21/2013 12:00 AM


Related to the development prospects of religious tourism between the two countries
Baghdad, Tariq al-Araji, the conciliator
delegation arrived high from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to Tehran on Saturday in order to activate the memorandum of understanding with its counterpart of Iran, as revealed for active participation and wide within the activities of the London market for the Travel and Tourism to be held during October the next second.
said Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Dr. Brigade Sumaisem in a telephone conversation with the (morning) from Tehran, that the Iraqi delegation headed arrived yesterday afternoon to the Iranian capital of Tehran and was greeted by the head of the pilgrimage and the visit Iranian Ahmed Moussaoui and a number of officials in the organization, noting that The Iraqi delegation included representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior and General Manager aggregates tourism in the ministry.
, adding that the delegation will hold a series of meetings with the Iranian side to activate the items that have not been implemented of the memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides during the year 2011, in addition to the development prospects of religious tourism between the two countries, as well as theme border crossings and visa including raising the numbers of visitors to the holy sites in the two countries.
For his part, Director of the Department aggregates tourism ministry Mahmoud Abdul-Jabbar al-Zubaidi told (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network) that the most prominent obstacles that will be discussed during the talks between the two sides, including the mechanism the establishment of workers in the pilgrimage and the visit accompanying the totals tourist in Iraq, and the opening of offices of the organization in all of Karbala, Najaf and Kadhimiya, Samarra, as well as the opening of offices of the Ministry of Tourism of Iraq in all of the cities of Mashhad, and, in addition to the movement of financial resources allocated by governments to facilitate the exchange of visitors between the two countries.
revealing that the delegation will talk about during the talks also to file the debt of tour companies Iranian counterparts Iraq, which only a large section of them, noting that the department is working to resolve this file once and for all with the Iranian side.
mentioned that the visit of the Iraqi delegation to Iran will conclude on Thursday next came to supplement the talks, which began earlier this month in Baghdad after he visited the head of the Iranian Hajj and visit Ahmed Moussaoui, Iraq, accompanied by a large delegation of concerned.

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