Iraq and Kuwait agree “in principle” to grant visas to enter

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Iraq and Kuwait agree “in principle” to grant visas to enter the Iraqi traders

Baghdad, January 1 (Rn) – The Iraqi ambassador in Kuwait, Sunday, that Iraq had agreed in principle with Kuwait on Iraqi traders grant visa to Kuwait during the Iraqi Chambers of Commerce – Kuwait.

Said Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Ulum, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “Iraq and Kuwait had agreed initially to grant visa to enter the Iraqi traders through Alkotah Iraqi Chambers of Commerce to promote trade between the two countries.”

He added that “the return of Iraqi businessman to the Kuwaiti market will enhance the historical relationship between the two countries and will contribute to address the political problems between them and the final elimination of the consequences.”

He continued that “the nothingness of Iraqi merchants in Kuwait and operates commercial attaché at the embassy and to strengthen their presence in coordination with the Kuwaiti authorities.”

He pointed out that Kuwait has controls operate on foreign access to it and these controls “to Atercz only the Iraqis but to most foreigners.”

Revealed Alkwyth Embassy in Baghdad last Thursday, about the intention of 50 men of the Kuwaiti labor and investment in Iraq during the next phase, pointing to continued efforts to promote trade between the two countries.

The Kuwaiti ambassador had announced earlier that his country began to develop administrative and legal procedures to facilitate the entry of Iraqi merchants to Kuwait, at a time when statistics indicate that the volume of trade exchange between the two countries reached $ 250 million in 2011.
And re-open its embassy in Kuwait, Iraq in 2008 after nearly 19 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations between the two countries, while the re-opening the Iraqi embassy in Kuwait in 2010.

Relations between Baghdad and Kuwait, a significant improvement in the past few years as it seemed to go beyond the implications of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait during the regime of Saddam Hussein in 1990, where both sides entered the formation of joint committees to resolve the existing problems between them, especially the problem of war reparations invasion of Kuwait, and the demarcation of the border, and the missing Kuwaitis, and fields joint oil, and others.

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