Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani called on Bulgarian companies to seize investment opportunities in Iraq, strengthen economic partnership and raise the level of exchange in various fields.

The Prime Minister’s Media Office stated in a statement that Al-Sudani met with the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Rumen Radev, on the sidelines of his participation in the work of the United Nations General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session held in New York.

During the meeting, relations between the two countries were reviewed, and ways to consolidate joint cooperation in the economic and security fields, health and agriculture, and confronting climate challenges. The meeting also discussed the resumption of the work of the Iraqi-Bulgarian Joint Committee, in order to advance bilateral relations to a better level.

Al-Sudani pointed to the extended history of Iraqi-Bulgarian relations, and the Bulgarian role in supporting Iraq, within the mission of the NATO mission, in the field of training and enhancing the combat capabilities of the Iraqi forces on the path of combating terrorism.

Al-Sudani expressed Iraq’s desire to revitalize relations with Bulgaria and sign a memorandum of understanding for political consultations between the foreign ministries of the two friendly countries.

Al-Sudani called on Bulgarian companies to seize investment opportunities in Iraq, strengthen economic partnership and raise the level of exchange in various fields.

For his part, the Bulgarian President expressed his country’s interest in participating in the development road project, stressing the desire of the Bulgarian industrial and economic sectors to contribute and extend the economic partnership within this vital and promising project.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency