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TEHRAN (ecoideal)- A senior Iranian trade official announced an upward trend in the country's non-oil exports to neighboring Iraq, and said that the Tehran-Baghdad economic cooperation has been improved.
"A sum of 14 percent of Iran's non-oil exports are shipped to Iraq," Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mojtaba Khosrotaj said on Saturday, addressing a meeting of Iranian and Iraqi chambers of commerce in Tehran.
He reiterated that the Iranian government is due to open a line of credit worth three billion dollars for presence of economic activists in Iraq.
Khosrotaj, also head of Iran Trade Development Organization, said that legal aspects of line of credit for exports to Iraq should be clear so that the presence of the Iranian businessmen in Iraq would face the least risk.
In a relevant development in early March, Iranian First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri in a meeting with Iraqi President Fuad Massum in Baghdad reassured him that his country will help reconstruct Iraq just as it helped it defeat the ISIL Takfiri group because of the deep bonds between the two neighboring countries.
"In the fight against the ISIL, we showed that Iran was inseparable from Iraq and now that Iraq's reconstruction is on the agenda, we are ready to assist the Iraqi government and nation because we view Iraq's security and prosperity as Iran's own security and prosperity," Jahangiri said.
The Iranian vice president, meantime, said ties between Iran and Iraq had reached the highest possible level and could serve as an example for the region.
He pointed to Iraq's vital role in the Muslim world and the international community, and said it was fine Islamic and political leadership as well as a progressive constitution that helped Iraq prevail.
Jahangiri also called on all of Iraq's ethnic, religious and political factions to remain united through the constitution because unity was their only key to victory.
"This is the most important factor for Iraq's advancement and the eradication of terror," he added.
Source: Farsnews