Iraqi Ambassador to Damascus 'Alaa Al-Jawadi stated yesterday that the security collaboration between Syria and Iraq is at the highest level.
In a press conference at the Iraqi Embassy in Damascus, he said: "We and Syria are in agreement and will spare no effort to restore Iraq to its leadership role in the region."
With regard to cooperation in the oil sector, he said the agreement exists but that there were technical difficulties that had caused the delay in rehabilitating the pipeline which would carry Iraqi oil from Kirkuk to the Syrian port of Latkia.
[MEMRI reported recently that the rehabilitation of the pipeline was delayed because Iraq was concerned about the flow of jihadists across the Syrian border into Iraq.]
Source: Al-Rafidayn, Iraq, June 30, 2009
