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Thursday, 12-07-201
Iraq's Foreign Minister opens Embassy in Paris after rehabilitation of Iraq
Baghdad, Opened by Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday the new Iraqi Embassy in Paris after rehabilitation.
The opening saw the presence of Prime Minister Fadhil Mohammed Jawad, Minister delegate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and development of Pascal kanvin, representing the Mayor of Paris Shapira, and several members of the Senate and National Assembly, as well as President of the French Council of Iraqi businessmen, managers of total, Alstom and a number of Arabic and Iraqi community leaders and the media.
And according to a llkharrget received (News Agency news) on Thursday that after the Iraqi flag and ribbon-cutting, Minister Zebari word on this occasion reviewed the Iraqi relations since the reign of the French King Faisal I and their evolution in all fields and cultural ones in particular.
Turning to the Minister: dictatorship becoming Iraqi embassies to okara security systems for chasing Iraqis abroad and over international conventions, as in the 1978 murder of a French policeman.
The Foreign Minister said: the opening of the Embassy comes within a project opening a dozen embassies and consulates during this year, adding: the Ministry bought and rebuilt 80 building after the change in 2003 to reflect new democratic Iraq.
Added: Pascal kanvin delivered a speech in which he reviewed the Iraqi relations since the reign of Charlemagne, the French and the Caliph Harun Ar-Rashid, he noted: the opening of the Iraqi Embassy is an important event in the development of Iraqi relations after the change in the French federal democratic Iraq through the contribution of French companies in the reconstruction of Iraq and increase cultural cooperation between the two countries.
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