Iraq Invites US Companies to Hold Exhibitions in BaghdadIraq has invited US companies to hold exhibitions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the weekly newspaper Al-Ittehad reported Sunday."A number of US companies have been invited to hold a series of specialized fairs in Iraq," the weekly quoted Fawzi Hussein al-Dhahir, general director of Iraq's trade fair company, as saying. Dhahir said that his company is ready to provide all the facilities for companies that wish to hold fairs in Baghdad, adding that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Spain, Ukraine, Germany and Turkey will hold trade fairs in Baghdad next month. This is believed to be the first time for Iraq to openly invite American firms to hold exhibitions in the sanctions-stricken country. Ever since the 1991 Gulf War, during which the US-led multinational coalition drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait after a seven-month occupation, U.S. companies have been absent from the Iraqi market. The U.S. has been the major force behind the continuation of the decade-old United Nations sanctions on Iraq, triggered by the invasion of its tiny neighbor in August 1990. |
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