FM visits Turkey to attend first meeting of Joint Planning Group

A high-level Iraqi delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein will visit Turkey tomorrow, Thursday, to hold the first meeting of the Turkish-Iraqi Joint Planning Group, co-chaired by the Iraqi Minister and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan. The Turkish Foreign Ministry stated in a statement today, Wednesday, that "Fuad Hussein, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq, will pay an official visit to Turkey tomorrow, Thursday, and during the visit, the first meeting of the "Turkish-Iraqi Joint Planning Group" will be held. During his visit to Iraq on April 22, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed the strategic framework agreement for joint cooperation between the two countries, and the Turkish-Iraqi Joint Planning Group was established under it, which will hold its first meeting tomorrow, Thursday, in the Turkish capital, Ankara. The statement of the Turkish Foreign Ministry indicated that the fourth meeting of the high-level security mec hanism between Ankara and Baghdad is also expected to be held tomorrow, Thursday. The Turkish Foreign Ministry explained in its statement that the meeting will be chaired by the foreign ministers of the two countries, and will be attended from the Turkish side by the Minister of Defense, Yashar Guler and the head of the National Intelligence Agency Ibrahim Kalin and Munir Karaoglu, Deputy Minister of the Interior, in addition to their Iraqi counterparts. Source: National Iraqi News Agency