Transport minister arrives in Sulaimaniya

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Minister of Transport Amer Abduljabbar arrived in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya on Sunday to sign a memorandum of understanding with the transport ministry in the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG) to implement transport projects, a Kurdish official said. “These projects include among others a railway line and the development of the Sulaimaniya International Airport,” a source from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Burham Saleh’s office told IraqiNews.com news agency. Sulaimaniya lies 364 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. It is part of Iraq’s Kurdistan. It is a safe city compared to other Iraqi provinces. Its population is estimated at 800,000. AmR (P) 1