The President Receives An Invitation To Participate In The 7th Summit Of Heads Of Government Of The Gas Exporting Countries Forum

Baghdad / NINA / -The President of the Republic, Abdellatif Jamal Rachid, received today, Sunday, an invitation from his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, to participate in the seventh summit of heads of government of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.

The Presidency of the Republic said in a statement, “The President of the Republic, Abdel Latif Jamal Rashid, received at Baghdad Palace the envoy of the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines, Mohamed Arkab,” indicating that “Rashid received a written message from the Algerian President that included an invitation to participate in the seventh summit for the heads and governments of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.

The President of the Republic stressed, according to the statement, "the importance of strengthening the relations that bring the two countries together and developing ways of joint cooperation, especially in the field of natural gas, and the necessity of coordination and consultation on issues of concern to the Iraqi and Algerian peoples in a way that achieves common interests and contributes to enhancing security and stability in the region," noting that " The Palestinian issue and the position of Iraq and Algeria in support of the rights of the Palestinian people, and demanding an end to the aggression and crimes committed against the Palestinians.”

Rashid pointed out "the necessity of coordination in the field of discovering and extracting natural gas, which has become important after calls to dispense with oil," stressing "the necessity of establishing cooperation between gas-exporting countries in order to control and regulate production quantities."

In turn, the Algerian minister affirmed that his country “stands by Iraq in facing the challenges and its efforts to establish security and stability,” praising “Iraq’s positions aimed at stabilizing global oil markets through its role within OPEC.”/End