Within the framework of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the President of the Republic Vahagn Khachaturyan met with the President of Iraq, Abdul Latif Rashid, RA President’s office reports. 

President Vahagn Khachaturyan noted that Iraq is a reliable partner of Armenia in the region and that it attaches great importance to the deepening of multi-sectoral cooperation with Iraq.

The president of Iraq emphasized that the Armenians living in Iraq enjoy the support of the Iraqi authorities, and they highly value the close Armenian-Iraqi relations. According to him, positive dynamics have been recorded in the bilateral trade turnover in recent years, which is a sign of serious bilateral economic potential, and efforts should be made to realize it.

President Vahagn Khachaturyan emphasized that Armenia has excellent relations with the vast majority of Islamic countries, including Arab ones. In this context, President Khachaturyan expressed his concern regarding the recent speech of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the summit of the League of Arab States, in which he exploited the religious factor in his accusations against Armenia, giving a religious tone to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and trying to set Islamic, in this case, Arab countries against Armenia.

President Khachaturyan unequivocally emphasized that the Karabakh conflict does not exist and cannot exist because the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh are fighting for their right to live and create safety in their homeland.

A bilateral agreement was reached to continue mutual contact aimed at the development of economic relations and the activation of interaction in various fields.