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KUWAIT, Dec 16 (KUNA) -- Kuwait and Iraq have inked a mutual investment
promotion and protection agreement and a tourist executive program.
The documents were signed at the concluded meeting of the joint
Kuwaiti-Iraqi committee.
The minutes of the second committee meeting regarding navigation at Khawr
Abd Allah (Abd Allah Estuary), and of the third session of the joint
ministerial committee were also signed.
The meeting was co-chaired by Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Iraqi Foreign Minister
Hoshyar Zebari.
During the meeting, the Kuwaiti minister spoke highly of the positive
development of Kuwaiti-Iraqi relations in various fields for the common
interest of both countries and their peoples.
They discussed several issues and topics of mutual interest and ways and
means of promoting and developing Kuwaiti-Iraqi cooperative relations in
various domains, as well as the latest regional and international developments.
The talks were also attended by several Kuwaiti officials, mainly
Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs Khaled Al-Jarallah,
and members of the visiting Iraqi side.
Sheikh Sabah Khaled then held a luncheon in honor of the visiting Iraqi
foreign minister and his accompanying delegation. (end)
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