The two-day Iran-Iraq Joint Security Meeting headed by both countries' high-ranking delegations began in Mashhad on Tuesday evening. The head of the Iranian delegation is Seyyed Majid Mir-Ahmadi, deputy interior minister for security and disciplinary affairs and the head of the Iraqi delegation is Mahdi-Ali Hadi al-Fukaiki, deputy consultant interior minister and head of Arabaeen Headquarters of that country.
Speaking with IRNA on the sidelines of the security meeting, the Iranian deputy interior minister said, "Solidarity of Iran and Iraq and our countries' strong comprehensive relations and cooperation make the enemies of both countries grieve, and that is the reason why the emergence of the slightest problems between the two countries is highly aggrandized by their media."
Seyyed Majid Mir-Ahmadi added that despite the will of the enemies, the two countries' relations are quite close and intimate, and even further expand with the passage of each new day.
"Close security cooperation between Iran an Iraq is a sample, and it can be claimed that our two countries have almost never had and will never have any unresolved problem," he said.
The Iraqi consultant interior minister, too, told IRNA that each country has its own particular problems and in the atmosphere of mutual cooperation "we will be witnesses to decreased problems", and therefore, holding these meetings must continue, because there are some problems which cannot be resolved so easily and right now in this meeting.
Mahdi-Ali Hadi al-Fukaiki added, "Iran and Iraq have over 3,000 kilometers of share borders and love and friendship between the two countries is sustainable."
He said that last year a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was prepared and good results were achieved and this year, too, in this two-day meeting miscellaneous issues in border guards' field, residence of university students and patients, and the Arbaeen rally of Imam Hossein (AS) will be reviewed.
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