SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Iraq and the Kurdistan Region this week, Iran’s foreign ministry said.
Spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh said Zarif accompanied by a delegation would pay visits to Iraq and Qatar on Sunday.
“The visit will be in the framework of developing bilateral relations, regional and trans-regional talks,” Khatibzadeh said in a press conference, according to state news agency IRNA.
Esta Media Network has obtained information that Zarif would also visit the Kurdistan Region and would meet senior Kurdish officials.
In March, Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein visited Tehran and met with his Iranian counterpart Zarif and Iran’s top security official Ali Shamkhani.
Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji paid a visit to Tehran on April 12. He met with Shamkhani who said accelerating the implementation of a resolution on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq would boost regional stability.
In January 2020, the Iraqi Council of Representatives passed a resolution calling on the government to end all foreign troop presence in Iraq, a backlash grew after the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
The resolution’s main aim was to get the United States to withdraw its troops present in different parts of Iraq.
Parliament’s resolution, unlike laws, are non-binding to the Iraqi government.
