Baghdad, Iraq, 3 June 2023 – The United Nations (UN) Assistant Secretary-General and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for Arab States, Mr. Abdallah Al Dardari, has concluded a five-day mission to Iraq with a commitment to support new development priorities in the country. During meetings with a wide variety of stakeholder
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The UK and the Republic of Iraq agreed a joint communiqué during the UK-Iraq Strategic Dialogue, held in London on 3 to 4 July 2023. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly hosted Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein for the UK-Iraq Strategic Dialogue at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in London. The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, met on Wednesday with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, on the sidelines of his participation in the ministerial meetings of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Baku from July 5–6, 2023, according to a statement issued by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry. The statement explained that the meeting a
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul-Ghani, said that Iraq aims to achieve self-sufficiency in gas within the coming five years. Abdul-Ghani explained that Iraq issued licenses for the exploration of oil and gas fields in western Iraq, which will enable Iraq to produce more than 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas. In a statement to Emirates News Age
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BASRA, Iraq, June 29 (Reuters) - As Aymen al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke rising over the skyline behind him shows the ecological damage that he is toiling to undo. Rubaye, an agricultural engineer, is working for a project started by Iraqi government bodies and a United Nations agency to grow up to 4 million
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