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Al-Sudani leaves Baghdad for America and describes his visit as “a sensitive circumstance.”

 

4/13/2024

Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani left today, Saturday, the capital, Baghdad, heading to the United States of America.

A statement issued by the Sudanese media office stated that the latter heads a government and parliamentary delegation and representatives of the private sector, at the beginning of an official visit at the invitation of US President Joseph Biden.

 

Al-Sudani made a press statement, prior to his departure for the United States of America, this morning, in which he stressed that this visit comes at a delicate and sensitive circumstance at the level of relations with the United States of America, as well as at the level of the conditions of the region and the crimes taking place in the Palestinian territories against innocent people, as well as Concerns about the expansion of the conflict.

He stated that the goal of the visit is to move relations with the United States to a new stage that includes activating the provisions of the Strategic Framework Agreement, which is in line with our government’s program, which focuses on economic and financial reforms and other important fields, as well as productive partnerships with various countries of the world.

Al-Sudani also indicated that the meeting with President Biden will discuss the conditions of the region and the escalation it is witnessing, and the joint role in working to calm the situation and prevent the conflict from expanding in a way that affects overall stability in the world. The meeting also reviews the work of the Supreme Military Committee between Iraq and the international coalition, which aims to reach To a timetable for ending the coalition mission and moving to bilateral relations with the countries participating in the coalition.

The Prime Minister confirmed that the visit will witness meetings with the US Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, as well as the National Security Advisor, the US Chamber of Commerce and senior officials in oil and industrial companies.

He reiterated that the visit carries the desire to build a sustainable strategic partnership, based on mutual respect, and to preserve Iraq’s security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Al-Sudani is accompanied on his official visit to Washington by a government and parliamentary delegation that includes a number of ministers, members of the House of Representatives, and advisors, in addition to representatives from the private sector, including businessmen and industrialists specialized in various sectors, where he will hold extensive discussions with American officials regarding bilateral relations, and discuss a group of economic files. Financial, commercial, and security issues, as well as files related to education, culture, and others. The visit also includes the signing of a number of investment contracts with major American companies.

The visit will witness the holding of the first meeting of the joint Higher Coordination Committee (HCC), with the aim of continuing to activate the strategic framework agreement, in the axes of energy, banking and financial cooperation, transportation, combating corruption, recovering Iraqi funds, and the business sector, in addition to education and culture.

 

Al-Sudani is scheduled to arrive in Washington to meet with US President Joe Biden on April 15, in his first visit since taking office in October 2022.

In an article he wrote recently, Al-Sudani considered the meeting he will have with President Joe Biden during his visit to the United States of America "will be an opportunity to put the American-Iraqi partnership on a new and more sustainable basis."

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