Eng. Arnous: Enhancing road transport between Syria and Iraq and the commercial exchange of industrial products

Damascus (ST): The Prime Minister, Engineer Hussein Arnous, reviewed with the Iraqi Minister of Industry and Minerals Manhal Aziz Al-Khabbaz, ways to enhance bilateral cooperation  in the industrial sector, establish joint investments, enhance trade exchange for industrial products, and increase coordination to reach a kind of integration in the two economies, which contributes to protecting common interests and increasing growth rates in Syria and Iraq.

Engineer Arnous clarified that Syria possesses the capabilities, infrastructure, regions, industrial cities and the appropriate environment, and provides the necessary facilities for establishing investments in all its forms.

The Prime Minister referred to the need to boost road transport between Syria and Iraq, facilitate the flow of goods and cars loaded with necessary industrial and food products to their markets, activate the exchange of goods and the importance of enhancing the role of economic and commercial activities in the process of trade exchange and establishing joint projects.

For his part, the Iraqi minister stressed the need to start industrial cooperation and establish contact points between the ministries of industry in Syria and Iraq, and his country’s readiness to solve all difficulties in cooperation and trade exchange, in addition to providing facilities in terms of entry, expressing  hope for concluding an industrial agreement that would contribute to achieving a state of economic integration between the two sides.

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