Baghdad, Head of the Asia and Australia Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dr. Hisham Al-Alawi, received Prashant Bisai, the Indian ambassador to Iraq, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Al-Alawi indicated during the meeting, according to a statement by the Ministry, that the Ministry is interested in following up bilateral files between Iraq and India, and supporting the work of the Indian Embassy in Iraq and cooperating with it to develop bilateral relations between the two countries, stressing the Iraqi government’s endeavor to expand its partnerships with the countries of the Asian continent.
During the meeting, they also discussed future steps to strengthen bilateral relations between Iraq and India, and ways to increase coordination between the two sides to overcome difficulties and expand bilateral cooperation in all fields.
For his part, the Indian Ambassador affirmed his country’s keenness to push relations with Iraq forward, stressing the Embassy’s readiness to follow up the implementation of what was agreed upon during the Ambassador’s meeting with the Undersecretary of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi on the sidelines of his visit to India to attend the International Conference on Combating the Financing of Terrorism last month.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency