Baghdad, Cairo, Amman Coordinate to Address Common Challenges

Baghdad, Cairo, Amman Coordinate to Address Common Challenges

Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi held talks in Baghdad on Monday with Egypt and Jordan’s Foreign Ministers Sameh Shoukry and Ayman al-Safadi.

Discussions tackled trilateral relations and joint coordination to address regional and international challenges and developments.

Upon their arrival in the Iraqi capital, Shoukry and Safadi met with their counterpart Fuad Hussein. The FMs agreed to hold regular meetings to face challenges and bolster trilateral relations.

The visit comes a year after Baghdad hosted the trilateral summit in June 2021, during which Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took part.

Salih said Iraq is keen to bolster ties with Jordan and Egypt in various fields and expand them through the agreed upon understandings and frameworks of trilateral cooperation in the political, security and economic fields and the coordination of positions to maintain regional security and stability.

He stressed that Iraq’s security, stability and geographic location is a necessary to ensure regional security, a presidential statement read.

He underscored the need to reduce tension and resort to dialogue to resolve outstanding issues to pave the way for regional coordination based on economic and trade cooperation to address common challenges, including security, economy and climate change.

Kadhimi, for his part,