The State of Qatar participated Sunday in the meeting of the Technical Committee of Iraq’s Development Road Project, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
The meeting brought together representatives from countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Iraq’s neighboring countries, the People’s Republic of China, World Bank, and the project’s consulting company.
Chaired by HE Minister of Transport of the Republic of Iraq Razak Muhibis Al Saadawi, the meeting discussed the details of the strategic project, which uses rail and road networks to link the east and west, starting from Iraq.
The State of Qatar’s delegation to the meeting included Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Land Transport Affairs at the Ministry of Transport Eng. Hamad Essa Abdulla, and several officials representing Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar Free Zones and companies of QTerminals and Qatari Diar.
This meeting rounds off a May conference in Baghdad that gathered ministers of transport of Iraq’s neighboring countries and the region and discussed the economic feasibility of the project.
On the margins of today’s meeting, the Qatari delegation met with advisers to Iraqi Prime Minister for transport affairs, and officials in the sectors of railways, ports and free zones. The meeting discussed aspects of cooperation and coordination between the two countries in the fields of transport, ports and logistics, as well as the projects of Development Road and Al Faw Grand Port.
Source: Qatar News Agency
