Iran Press/ Iran news: According to Shana, during the meeting with the Iraqi delegation headed by the Iraqi Minister of Finance Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi, Bijan Zangeneh voiced Iran’s readiness to bolster gas exports to Iraq, adding: "We hope Iraq would pay its debt to Iran as soon as possible.”
During the meeting, which was also attended by the Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian, Iraq's electricity debt to Iran was also discussed.
The meeting was accompanied by Iraqi Finance Minister Ali Abdul Alawi, Iraqi Electricity Minister Majid Mahdi Hantoush, and State-owned Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) CEO Salem Chalabi.
Tehran and Baghdad are set to find a final solution to settling Iraq's debt to Iran this week through joint meetings.
This is the second meeting between the Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh and the Iraqi delegation in less than a month.
During the meeting in May, Zangeneh had said: "Two important contracts in the field of Iranian gas exports to Iraq have been signed with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity in recent years, and 27 billion cubic meters of Iranian gas have been exported to Iraq so far."
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