Iraq Needs Russia’s Advice, Help to Overcome Low Oil Prices’ Outcomes

Member of the Iraqi parliament's foreign relations committee Iqbal Abdul Hussein said that Iraq will need the Russian experience to get out of financial crisis. CAIRO (Sputnik) – Baghdad needs Moscow’s experience and assistance to overcome the economic crisis that has developed in the country amid a sharp drop in oil prices, member of the Iraqi parliament's foreign relations co

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Russia ready to cooperate with Iraq in many spheres — deputy PM

BAGHDAD, February 11. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has called for diversifying Russian-Iraqi trade and declared that there had emerged plans for joint projects of interest in various spheres. Speaking in Baghdad at a meeting of the bilateral inter-government commission, the first over many years, Rogozin said that the preceding consultations by experts a

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Kurdistan is ‘part of Iraq’ and should remain so: PM Abadi

Berlin (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi urged Kurdistan on Thursday to drop any plans for independence, criticising a proposed statehood referendum and warning the autonomous region would not prosper on its own. Abadi also highlighted the economic crisis Iraq faces, saying that oil revenues had fallen by 85 percent compared to two years before -- a major challenge m

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