Swedish trade minister visits Basra

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Chairman of Basra‘s Provincial Council Sabah al-Bazouni reported that today the Swedish Trade Minister and her accompanying delegation visited Basra to review investment possibilities between the two countries. Bazouni told IraqiNews.com that the Swedish ambassador to Baghdad accompanied the Trade Minister Ewa Björling with a number of Swedish companies. He expressed readiness to extend all possible assistance to Swedish companies by the central government and security organs. “We have distinguished relations with Iraq.There are 140,000 Swedes of Iraqi origin who will contribute toward developing relations between the two sides,” Minister Björling pointed out. She added that the two country’s bilateral relations were developed during the last three years, expressing hopes of further developing them. RM (TS)/SR Number of Reads:109