Ahlulbayt News Agency: Iranian and Iraqi border guards officials in a meeting in Erbil underlined the need for increased cooperation in fighting terrorist groups and armed traffickers.
The meeting was held between Commander of Iran’s West Azarbaijan province’s border guards General Yahya Hossein Khani and Commander of Iraqi border guards’ first zone Imad Fazel Hadi.
“The exchange of information on the implementation of border agreements in order to establish more security in the border line and facilitate the implementation of border agreements and protocols should be put on the agenda,” General Khani said.
“The borders of the two countries in the region should be jointly managed and the border guards should firmly confront insecurities that exist due to the presence of terrorists, armed traffickers and those who smuggle cultural items and weapons and ammunition at the border,” he added.
General Hadi, for his part, said that desired interactions have been made to establish security at the two countries’ joint borders which should continue.
At the end of the meeting, the two sides inked a joint cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
In a relevant development in September, Iranian and Iraqi border officials inked an MoU to increase cooperation to strengthen security at the common borders.
The MoU was signed by Colonel Soleiman Bairami, the commander of Sardasht border guards, and General Amid Fakhruddin, the chief of Sulaymaniyah border security forces, in a meeting in the Northwestern Iranian city of Sardasht, West Azarbaijan.
Based on the agreement, the two sides will enhance cooperation to boost the security of their shared border regions.
During the meeting, they also explored the avenues for tackling the current challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic.
The two sides stressed the need to provide the grounds to reopen the border markets with the health protocols in place.
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