Anbar signs MoU with U.S. firms

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: A delegation from al-Anbar province on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with U.S. companies in the Lebanese capital Beirut to set up service and industrial projects in al-Anbar cities, according to the provincial council’s investment committee chief. “We signed the MoU during a meeting held in Beirut. The Anbar investment delegation selected several U.S. companies to establish industrial projects by making good use of the province’s mineral wealth,” Mozher Hassan told IraqiNews.com news agency over the phone from Beirut. The predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar lies 110 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 645