Mawazine News – Baghdad
The visit of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani, to the United States of America was clearly welcomed by the popular and political circles, at a time when the political circles are relying on the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tomorrow.
During his week-long visit to Washington, Al-Sudani focused on a number of important files concerned with the economy, security and energy, during which he met with representatives of the leading US companies in these fields.
The President of the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council, Sheikh Hammam Hamoudi, confirms that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani courageously confirmed the Iraqi position during his meeting with US President Joseph Biden, and dealt with the spirit of the statesman whose sovereignty is respected.
In a speech during the “Safwa” forum, Sheikh Hamoudi said that “Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, made it clear during his visit to Washington and meeting with US President Joseph Biden, that Iraq is not ready to be subject to America or with the American track, in the most beautiful way.”
He explained that “the Sudanese bravely established the Iraqi position during his meeting with Biden and treated the spirit of the statesman whose sovereignty is respected.
Political confidence in the wisdom of the Sudanese
For his part, the Vice Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee and the Follow-up of the Implementation of the Government Parliamentary Program, Mohammed Al-Baldawi, said that “the visit of the Prime Minister to the United States of America is of great importance; given the circumstances that this region is going through, which has intensified and reached the maximum possible from the peak of the military clash, as well as the economic resources of the region that almost manage the world.”
He added that “the organization of relations with the United States of America needs such visits, for the importance of the files between the two countries, the most important of which are those files discussed by the Prime Minister, the most prominent of which are the file of the foreign presence on Iraqi territory, and through the schedule of meetings in the visit, which was published, we note its diversity and diversity of its dimensions.”
He stressed, “We deeply trust the Prime Minister’s thinking and also his management of the files, and we hope that the American side will have a role to commit to what these negotiations will come out, especially that Iraqi negotiators have met and held such negotiations in many times, but there was a regression from the American side,” and pointed out that “we understand the nature of the Prime Minister’s role, his keenness, his patriotism, sincerity and strategic vision in drawing a balanced bilateral relationship with the United States of America, through which we are determined to achieve the goals of Iraqi sovereignty, diversify the Iraqi economy, launching the Iraqi hand in trade, communication, lifting sanctions on banks and freeing the Iraqi decision from foreign domination, in order to achieve the hopes of the Iraqi people for security, prosperity and stability sustainable.”
In turn, the head of the parliamentary finance committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, expressed great satisfaction with the results of the talks of the Iraqi delegation currently visiting Washington under the presidency of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani.
Al-Atwani stressed “his full support for the positive understandings that resulted from the Sudanese meeting with the US president within the framework of the shift in the relationship between the two countries from the security and military aspect to the fields of development, reconstruction, economy and investment.”
Meanwhile, the independent politician Oed Al-Hilali participating in the Iraqi delegation in Washington said that “the current leadership of Iraq finds the Sudanese visit to Washington of great importance in order to put points on the letters to start sketching the future of relations between the two countries, and how to shift from a military and security presence only to a comprehensive sustainable partnership through which the two governments (Iraqi and American) are working to improve the performance of Iraqi government institutions and initiate a major development process.”
He added that “Iraq has set its feet on the path of modernizing the joints of the state, and it has begun to reduce corruption and link Iraqi financial institutions to the global system, as well as the government went to modernize and establish infrastructure in order to make Iraq an attractive environment for investments. Agreements have been concluded with major countries and companies, which stimulated the American side to react significantly with the Sudanese reform steps.”
For his part, the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, in his speech during the eighth forum in Sulaymaniyah, said that “the vision of the Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, led to good stability in the administration and governance in the country,” calling at the same time on “the Iraqi political parties to support the federal government.”
Erdogan is on the cusp of Baghdad
The spokesman for the Iraqi government, in the name of Al-Awadi, confirmed today, the signing of two strategic agreements, one of which is related to the water file and more than 20 memorandums of understanding during the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Baghdad tomorrow, Monday, revealing the possibility of the visit witnessing the signing of an Iraqi-Turkish-Qatar-Emirati quartet agreement to lay the foundations for the development project.
“The visit is historic as it is the first of the Turkish president to Iraq in 13 years, and the last time he visited Baghdad in 2011, and the importance of the visit stems from the files you will be looking at and prepared early,” Al-Awadi said.
He added, “Since last year, joint teams and committees have worked to prepare for the visit in the files of security, water and agriculture inside Iraq, the economy and trade exchange, and several committees have conducted mutual visits to Iraq and Turkey to prepare for them accurately within a full year, and the visit will culminate the total arrangements agreed upon by the preparatory committees for this visit.”
He added that “the visit will be a very large starting point for Iraqi-Turkish relations in an unusual way before its history, and it will be the beginning of the ystyling of problems between Iraq and Turkey and will witness the signing of two agreements between the Prime Minister and the Turkish President in addition to more than twenty memorandums of understanding and between Iraqi and Turkish institutions in various fields and there will be guarantees for their implementation, as committees will follow up on the agreements and memorandums of understanding signed after the end of the visit.”
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