Tuesday, March 06, 2007

 

Construction material expo opens in Arbil

Commerce
(VOI) A five-day construction material exhibition was opened on Monday with the participation of more than 80 companies, most of them Turkish, working in construction field. Aziz Ibrahim Abdo, member of the preparatory committee for the exhibition and a general director in the ministry of finance from Iraq's Kurdistan region, said that Turkish commercial ties with Iraq's Kurdistan would play a pivotal role in strengthening relations between the two governments.He also underlined that there were more than 350 Turkish companies operating in Kurdistan.
"We are in need of new imported construction materials to speed up construction operations, as well as to implement other projects," Arbil Mayor, Nouzad Hadi, said in statements to VOI. The coordinator of Turkish companies in Kurdistan, Karkhi Yarmaq, said that bolstering commercial ties was the best way to maintain the two parties' interests and to tackle any misunderstandings. Turkey has accused Iraq's Kurdistan government of supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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