Maliki meets U.S. Congressmen, calls for implementing strategic agreement

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Premier Nouri Al-Maliki called Monday for implementing the Iraqi-US Strategic agreement that organizes the cooperation between the two countries. In a statement following a meeting with US Congress delegation headed by John Makin, he added that “prospects of cooperation with the United States are widely open”. The statement added the necessity of expanding cooperation between the two countries in economic, industrial, trade and scientific fields. The US Congress delegation expressed the desire of US government to increase cooperation between the two sides within the framework of the strategic cooperation. RM (TP)/SH 773