Ahmadinejad Set To Historically Enter Iraq On Sunday
Related: Iraq Braces
Baghdad, Feb 29 (VOI) – Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to pay a two-day state visit to Iraq on Sunday, the first ever by an Iranian president to Iraq since the outbreak of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a spokesman for the Iraqi government said on Friday.
“The Iranian president will be accompanied by a delegation comprising the ministers of foreign affairs, finance and electricity as well as other senior officials,” Ali al-Dabbagh told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
Dabbagh ruled out the issues of border demarcation and oilfields would be discussed during the Iranian leader’s visit.
“The visit would not discuss this issue because it was already deliberated by a joint committee to lay landmarks on the ground borders between the two countries,” he said, noting “the issue of the river borders was also discussed by another committee.”
On the joint oilfields, Dabbagh referred to “an invitation to have joint investments in those fields.”
An Iranian delegation had arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to prepare for Ahmadinejad’s visit. The delegation comprised representatives of several Iranian ministries including the foreign affairs, energy, oil and transport.
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