Finance Minister Meets With Japanese Ambassador To Iraq

BAGHDAD / NINA / Acting Finance Minister, Safa al-Din al-Safi discussed with the Japanese ambassador to Iraq, Masato Takaoka ways to develop economic relations between the two countries and the importance of Japanese loans provided to the Iraqi government . A statement for the Finance Ministry said today that "the Acting Minister of Finance invested the occasion of the end of the Japanese ambassador's mission in Iraq, to discuss the importance of Japanese soft loans provided to the Iraqi government and ways to strengthen economic relations between the two countries." The two sides discussed the importance of Japanese loans provided to carry out service projects in most of the Iraqi provinces, most important, the health projects, communications and rehabilitation of the refineries. "/ End