Prime Minister Receives Luxembourg's Foreign Minister

Baghdad, (NINA)- Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi received today, Tuesday, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, they discussed strengthening bilateral relations between Iraq and Luxembourg, as well as with the whole of the European Union. The Prime Minister’s Media Office quoted him as confirming that “Iraq is continuing to strengthen partnership with Luxembourg and Europe in the war on terrorism, and institutional cooperation in various fields, the most important of which are fighting corruption, reforming the banking sector, and developing dependence on clean energy.” The meeting witnessed a discussion of the situation on the international arena, the need to seek peaceful solutions to the ongoing conflicts, and Iraq's standing by everything that would spare people the suffering of conflicts, and the effects of wars and their disasters on civilians. For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg indicated that his government and the European Union are looking forward to continuing to help Iraq, providing support and backing in various fields, and expressed his country's readiness to work with Iraq to encourage investment activity in support of economic development and provide job opportunities, and the minister stressed his quest to remove obstacles of the work of Iraqi Airways in European airports./End