Iraq, Iran issue joint statement on consolidating bilateral ties

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iran and Iraq issues a joint communiqué at the end of the Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri’s three-day visit of Iran’s western, brother country.

‘In line with policies to strengthen and broaden the bilateral friendly ties of the two brother countries of Islamic Republic of Iran and Republic of Iraq, His Honor Mr. Es’haq Jahangiri, the Iranian first vice president, visited Iraq on an official invitation extend to him by Prime Minister Haider al-Ebadi from Feb 16 to 19, 2015’ reads the communiqué in part.

It notes that Dr. Jahangiri in this visit met and conferred with the Iraqi president, prime minister, foreign minister, and other high ranking Iraqi officials amid a warm atmosphere and he also paid homage to the holy shrines of the Imams and saints in Iraq and talked with grand sources of jurisprudence.

The two sides have shared viewpoints on ongoing political and security developments in the region and are agreed on need of continuous bilateral and multilateral consultations aimed at passage through the existing security threats, strengthening the bilateral ties, and uprooting terrorism, which has emerged as a threat not only against the regional, but also against the world peace and stability, it adds.

Iran and Iraq also stressed the need for finding political solutions for the regional crisis by the regional countries and free from foreign intervention in the communiqué.

Jahangiri’s visit of Iraq which began on Monday morning is scheduled to end on Wednesday evening, when the Iranian first vice president will head for Tehran. /End/