{"id":153704,"date":"2018-12-17T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=153704"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:53:19","slug":"syria-iraq-discuss-enhancing-economic-and-trade-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=153704","title":{"rendered":"Syria, Iraq discuss enhancing economic and trade relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, SANA- Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammad Hashem al-Ani \u00a0discussed with Syrian Ambassador in Baghdad Satam Jadaan al-Dandah prospects of developing and enhancing economic and trade cooperation between the two countries in light of the victories achieved by their armies against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, al-Ani described the relations between the two countries as &#8220;historic and rapidly developing, particularly on the social and geographic levels which bind the two brotherly countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that the trade exchange between Iraq and Syria has reached significant levels as it has been estimated at USD 4 billion over the past years.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi minister affirmed that his country exerts relentless efforts to push its relations with Syria forwards and to strengthen trade exchange between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Iraqi-Syrian Committee for Mutual Cooperation will reactivate its work in light of the agreement of economic cooperation and organizing the trade exchange which was signed between the two countries .<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Ambassador al-Dandah expressed Syria&#8217;s desire to bolster trade relations between the two countries through opening the border crossings and increasing the volume of trade exchange, in addition to resolving all the outstanding issues.<\/p>\n<p>Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baghdad, SANA- Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammad Hashem al-Ani \u00a0discussed with Syrian Ambassador in Baghdad Satam Jadaan al-Dandah prospects of developing and enhancing economic and trade cooperation between the two countries in light of the victories achieved by their armies against terrorism. During the meeting, al-Ani described the relations between the two countries as &#8220;historic and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":153705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,122,485,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-money-and-work","category-economic","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}