TEHRAN, Feb 4 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran and Iraq, yesterday, highlighted the necessity to expand bilateral cooperation, to ensure security and stability in the West Asia region, the ICANA news agency of the Iranian parliament reported.
At a joint press conference, following their meeting in the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and his visiting Iraqi counterpart, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, highlighted the necessity to promote bilateral relations, the report said.
“We seek to increase our bilateral political and economic relations, which will contribute to ensuring peace and stability in the region and among the neighbouring Arab, non-Arab and Muslim states,” Qalibaf said.
Qalibaf said, ties between the Iranian and Iraqi peoples, parliaments and governments were at their peak, adding that, as two Muslim countries, Iran and Iraq were always ready to support the resistance front and the Muslim world’s dignity.
The Iraqi parliament speaker, for his part, said, the most important issues discussed during his visit to Tehran included the topics of borders, economic relations, and security cooperation, according to the Iraqi News Agency.
“We discussed the means to support the security stability of the region,” he said, stressing that, “Iraq will not abandon its Arab and Islamic principles, and it is open to everyone.”
The ICANA said Mashhadani gave the assurance that Iraq would always stand by Iran, and be the neighbouring country’s “wings,” expressing hope that bilateral ties would further improve.– NNN-IRNA
