17 January 2012
CAIRO - Egyptian power companies have will send a delegation to Iraq, lead by the country's foreign minister Karmel Amro. The engineers and officials will talk to their Iraqi counterparts about forming an Iraqi-Egyptian company to rebuild Iraq's power grid.
Egyptian ministry of labor and immigration press officer Alaa Awad told AKnews the Egyptian delegation will visit Baghdad in the last week of January. The trip was postponed until after the Arbain festival which concluded this weekend. The Shiite festival was marred by violence with more than 50 pilgrims killed in a suicide bombing in Basra on Saturday.
The delegation had used this time to visit Syria in a bid to help rebuild the shattered North African country following the protracted civil war which eventually saw the demise of long-time dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi.
Hassan Najem, representing a coalition of Egyptian power companies, told AKnews that another delegation will visit Iraq on Tuesday in order to register a number of Egyptian companies with the Iraqi government. This will allow them to sign electricity infrastructure projects Baghdad is putting out to tender.
CAIRO - Egyptian power companies have will send a delegation to Iraq, lead by the country's foreign minister Karmel Amro. The engineers and officials will talk to their Iraqi counterparts about forming an Iraqi-Egyptian company to rebuild Iraq's power grid.
Egyptian ministry of labor and immigration press officer Alaa Awad told AKnews the Egyptian delegation will visit Baghdad in the last week of January. The trip was postponed until after the Arbain festival which concluded this weekend. The Shiite festival was marred by violence with more than 50 pilgrims killed in a suicide bombing in Basra on Saturday.
The delegation had used this time to visit Syria in a bid to help rebuild the shattered North African country following the protracted civil war which eventually saw the demise of long-time dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi.
Hassan Najem, representing a coalition of Egyptian power companies, told AKnews that another delegation will visit Iraq on Tuesday in order to register a number of Egyptian companies with the Iraqi government. This will allow them to sign electricity infrastructure projects Baghdad is putting out to tender.
© AK News 2012
