{"id":14698,"date":"2019-03-18T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T01:39:21","slug":"iraqi-pm-vows-no-return-to-war-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=14698","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi PM Vows No Return To War Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>          <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 18 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Sunday that, his country won&#8217;t return to war policies as the friend to all regional countries and an advocate of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdul Mahdi made the comments during a meeting with Qatari Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ali bin Ahmed al-Kuwari and his accompanying delegation, in the capital, Baghdad, according to a statement by Abdul Mahdi&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Iraq is a peace element that would serve the region and will not return to the policies of destructive wars,&#8221; the statement quoted Abdul Mahdi as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our interests are with our neighbours and we have a strong will to open and cooperate with Qatar in all fields, and to exchange interests in the economic, trade and investment fields,&#8221; the prime minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, al-Kuwari said, Qatar is determined to increase cooperation with Iraq and expand relations in economic, trade, construction and investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Qatari minister also expressed his country&#8217;s desire to sign a free trade agreement with Iraq to exchange, encourage and protect investments between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, al-Kuwari, heading a delegation of more than 30 businessmen and investors, arrived in Baghdad, with the aim of boosting bilateral relations, particularly in the economic and investment sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit to Iraq comes, just days after the visit of a Saudi economic delegation, which aimed at activating relations on the strategic level and opening new horizons for cooperation in politics, economy, trade and investment.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 18 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Sunday that, his country won&#8217;t return to war policies as the friend to all regional countries and an advocate of peace. Abdul Mahdi made the comments during a meeting with Qatari Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ali bin Ahmed al-Kuwari and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}