China announces facilities for Iraq by granting visas and revealing the volume of trade exchange

China announces facilities for Iraq by granting visas and revealing the volume of trade exchange



5/5/2019 9:00

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Chinese Ambassador to Iraq, Zhang Tao, revealed new facilities to grant visa (visa) to Iraqis.

"Before I came to Baghdad, I heard a lot about visas, and now we are working to facilitate visas for Iraqis, and the fact that the electronic visa system is facing some problems, we have addressed that problem, and now we are granting visas to China at the consulate," Tao said in a press statement. In Arbil, and we have spent 5 million yuan to the Consulate General in Arbil. "

"We will launch new projects after the Chinese embassy is relocated and we will expand the visa process. We will grant about 20,000 visas annually, mostly to businessmen and students, and we will seek in the coming periods to activate the tourist visa," he added.

"In recent years, the relations between Baghdad and Beijing have developed remarkably. The year 2015 witnessed the establishment of strategic partnership relations at the political level. This shows the great interest of the two leaders in developing bilateral relations," he said.

"In terms of economy, the cooperation of countries in this field maintains good momentum, and the volume of trade exchange between the two countries is growing and developing a lot annually, and by 10 percent, where the economic exchange exceeded 30 billion dollars last year, and China is the largest trading partner of Iraq, Iraq is also China's second largest oil supplier and China's fourth largest trading partner in the Middle East. "

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