Overall bilateral trade fundamentals are increasing despite sanctions The cultural and economic connection between Mesopotamia and Russia goes back to centuries before the Middle Ages. But in the contemporary era, Soviet-Iraq relations were established in September 1944. Despite the ups and downs of 1955 and the restoration of relations in 1958, Baghdad became one of the
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Trade and investment connections between Russia and Iraq have a long and intricate history. During the Middle Ages, merchants and explorers from both regions interacted, traversing through the Volga trade route and the Caspian Sea, establishing early trade networks between what would much later become Russia and Iraq. Formal diplomatic relations were established on September 9
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Structural Reforms Key to Meeting Rapidly Growing Population’s Needs With long-overdue financial reforms and an ambitious federal budget, Iraq’s Government continues to forge progress in tackling the challenges it faces, the senior United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today, adding that more efforts are required to address its rapidly growing popu
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Speaking in New York during the UN General Assembly, he tells The National his government is committed to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kuwait “Gaining the trust of the people”. That is how Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani described his biggest challenge since assuming office 10 months ago. While economic woes, climate change and threats to secu
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With its vast oil and gas resources, there is no fundamental reason why Iraq cannot become a world-class producer of high-value petrochemicals. In the process, it would benefit enormously from huge revenues from these value-added products and from putting a large part of the gas it currently flares to good use. There have been plans to do just this in place for several years, m
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