Baghdad – Mil
US Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken praised on Tuesday the steps of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani in the field of the Iraqi economy and modernization as well as the fight against corruption.
U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement that “Blinken met today with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani in New York, and the minister and the prime minister discussed urgent efforts to avoid further escalation of the conflict in the region.”
The two parties stressed the importance of the strategic partnership between the United States and Iraq, including the commitment to expand cooperation in the field of economic development and continue to build relations between our peoples. The two leaders stressed the joint vision of building a lasting security partnership that promotes regional stability, including continuing discussions on the transition of the military mission to the Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Iraq to ensure the defeat of ISIS.
He added that “Blinken stressed the need to reopen the oil pipeline between Iraq and Turkey to encourage continued foreign investment in the Iraqi economy and praised Iraq’s commitment to achieve independence in the field of energy by 2030. He also affirmed the United States’s support for the Prime Minister’s agenda to modernize the Iraqi economy, including combating corruption and financial sector reform, and the commitment of the United States’ continued efforts to support a stable Iraq, security and sovereign sovereignty for the benefit of the Iraqi people and the wider region.”
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