Ambassador French: the international community needs strong Iraq to the stability of the region

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The French Ambassador in Iraq Boris Bwalun that the international community needs strong Iraq to achieve stability in the region and to restore to the regional balance, declaring his country's support for the democratic experience in Iraq and help it out of the international sanctions imposed on him in the wake of the Second Gulf War in 1991.

Revealed Bwalun told the newspaper "Sabah", Baghdad on the arrival of a warship France to the port of Basra on Tuesday, in a move aimed at enhancing mutual trust between Baghdad and Paris, and an expression of French support for Iraq in all fields and assist in building the country. And that sending the ship is one of the practices and customs traded between the allied countries, expressing his country's readiness and determination to stand by Iraq until the restoration of its regional and international levels.

"The Iraqi people face penalties of double first of remnants of the previous dictatorial regime, and the other is the international sanctions imposed on him in the wake of the Second Gulf War," but he emphasized that "Iraq can not pay the price for Saddam's regime to no end."

The French ambassador, speaking in Arabic, that Paris has a clear vision in dealing with international sanctions imposed on Iraq, saying that "Iraq no longer poses a threat to the security of the region," but he stressed that "Iraq has played a crucial role in the stability of the region and achieving balance regional situation. "

He said that the core of the policy of Paris in this regard is focused on re-establishing trust between Iraq and its surroundings, particularly the GCC countries.

And on a messy encounter with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a few days ago, he explained that during the meeting the overall situation and bilateral relations, in addition to consideration of the draft Strategy will be implemented by companies France to create a giant power station in Basra to meet the needs of the southern provinces of energy.

France will seek to raise the volume of trade exchange with Iraq, noting that the climate is now ready to implement the road map have been identified over the past year to start a new page in relations between Iraq and France.

He revealed that the French company Total, which won licenses in the cycle oil, will invest about three billion dollars to develop the field (Hlvaip) during the next few years. He said: "France optimistic about the political future of Iraq .. Confident Iraqi leaders and their ability to form a national government capable of managing the country, "saying the elections held on the seventh of March, which led to" a new phase in the consolidation of democracy, "adding" pay tribute to the courage of voters of Iraq and strong will to overcome Iraq's sectarian strife ", returned bottlenecks associated with the political process as "a matter of course" in developing such as Iraq moved to the newly democratic system. He said: that France went through the same experience, as well as America before they reach the stage of political stability

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