Iran Press/ Iran News: Rostam Ghasemi, Minister of Roads and Urban Development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who is in the Iraqi capital Baghdad said on Sunday that an agreement was signed between the two countries to implement a 32-kilometer Shalamcheh-Basra railway connection project.
"The agreement has a definite timetable, and one of its clauses is that implementation will actually begin within the next month," Ghasemi said. "It was also agreed to double the number of daily flights between the two countries to about 200 flights."
The Iranian minister met and held talks with the Director-General of the Iraqi Railways Company and the Director-General of the Iraqi Ministry of Planning to discuss the ways of developing cooperation of the two countries in various fields including railway and exchanging experiences.
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