{"id":261414,"date":"2026-08-23T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/261414\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:56:08","slug":"baghdad-hosts-iraqi-libyan-joint-committee-meetings-after-25-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/261414\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad hosts Iraqi-Libyan Joint Committee meetings after 25-year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 Libya\u2019s Acting Foreign Minister Taher al-Baour is in Baghdad heading a high-level delegation to co-chair the Iraqi-Libyan Joint Committee meetings, which have resumed after a 25-year break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Baour met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein to discuss strategies to enhance political, diplomatic, and regional ties between Baghdad and Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their discussions focused on aligning mutual political positions on regional problems and increasing combined consular and diplomatic presence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following their meeting, al-Baour and Hussein held a joint press conference. Al-Baour emphasized Libya\u2019s immediate need to partner with Iraq to repair and staff key public facilities, particularly in education and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Libyan delegation is finalizing several memoranda of understanding covering a wide range of economic and development areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Baour\u2019s team includes officials from several government bodies affiliated with the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, this diplomatic drive follows Iraq\u2019s offer to resume coordination and signify a return to normalized, regular diplomatic ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The delegation\u2019s trip to Baghdad builds directly upon virtual expert meetings organized by the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conclude trade agreements with Iraqi officials before signatures are authorized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 Libya\u2019s Acting Foreign Minister Taher al-Baour is in Baghdad heading a high-level delegation to co-chair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[1711,71903,71904,94,71905,4164,16368],"class_list":["post-261414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-baghdad","tag-gnu","tag-government-of-national-unity","tag-iraq","tag-iraqi-libyan-joint-committee","tag-libya","tag-tripoli"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117145644777416232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}