Foreign Minister Meets US Ambassador to Baghdad

Foreign Minister Mr. Fuad Hussein met with the United States Ambassador to Baghdad Mr. Matthew Tueller.

At the beginning of the meeting, the US Ambassador congratulated the Minister on assuming his position as Foreign Minister of the Republic of Iraq and expressed his looking forward to witnessing a qualitative improvement in the bilateral relations between the two countries.

The Minister stressed the depth of the strategic relations between Baghdad and Washington in addition to the importance of activating bilateral cooperation to achieve the interests of both friendly countries.

The Minister expressed the Foreign Ministry’s commencement in completing preparations for the strategic dialogue round with US considering that it represents an important phase that would frame the priorities of Baghdad and Washington and stressed the need to continue the positive development of various distinct bilateral cooperation aspects.