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.

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

The Iraqi president emphasized that the Armenians living in Iraq enjoy the support of the Iraqi authorities and 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 severe bilateral economic potential, and efforts should be made to realize it.

President Vahagn Khachaturyan emphasized that Armenia has excellent relations with most Islamic countries, including Arab countries. In this context, President Khachaturyan expressed his concern regarding the recent speech of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev within the framework of the League of Arab States, in which he manipulated the religious factor in his accusations against Armenia, giving a religious tone to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and trying to provide Islamic, in this case, Arab countries against Armenia. : The president emphasized that this conflict has nothing to do with religion and is a struggle for the right of self-determination of the people living in their historical cradle.

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