inked a series of economic and energy deals on Thursday during a visit to Baghdad by the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
The two countries signed a broad agreement to expand “cooperation in politics, economics, energy, and investment,” Iraqi Prime MinisterThey also inked specific deals on transportation, development projects and energy, including “the establishment of a joint oil company, and the construction of an oil refinery” and an agreement on hotel construction, he said.
Qatar’s state-owned Qatar News Agency reported that the emir had announced his country’s intent to “invest $5 billion in a number of sectors in