Basra offers 120 investment opportunities to Washington

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Basra delegation to the investment conference in Washington DC proposed around 120 investment opportunities to U.S. firms that showed interest in investing in the province. “The investment opportunities include different economic sectors in Basra,” the province’s governor, Dr. Shaltagh Abod, said at a press conference in Basra on Tuesday after he returned from the U.S. He said that security stability in Basra is considered among the most important parameters that encourages investments in the province. The oil-rich city of Basra lies 590 km south of Baghdad. MH (P)/SH 1