Iraq hopes to purchase arms, military hardware from Russia
[25.05.06]
(Interfax) Russian military specialists will visit Baghdad within the next few days to study the possibility of selling weapons and military hardware to Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zibari said.
"Iraq has asked Russia to sell it certain types of weapons and military hardware for a long time. But nothing has happened in this area. But I am telling you now that a delegation of Russian military specialists will travel to Baghdad within the next few days to study this issue," Zibari said in an interview with Russia's Vremya Novostei newspaper published on Monday.
Zibari said that he had invited his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to pay a visit to Baghdad during their meeting in Syria.
According to the Iraqi foreign minister, Lavrov and Zibari also discussed "an expected visit of Lukoil company representatives to Baghdad."
"We [Iraq and Lukoil] have been discussing the fate of a contract to develop the West Kurna-2 large oil and gas deposit," he said.
Russia and Iraq have managed to "break the stalemate" over their cooperation in building local pipelines, Zibari said.
"A delegation of specialists from Russian company Stroitransgaz has already visited Baghdad. We hope that this company will start building pipelines in the near future that will allow Iraq to deliver its oil to Jordan and in a different direction toward Syria and Lebanon," he said. (Source: Interfax)
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