(Baghdad: Al Furat News) Poland pledged to assist Iraq to remove its name from the list of high risk countries in the issue of money laundering and terrorist financing.
A statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, “The Chargé d’Affairs in Poland, Hussain Mansour Al-Safi, met in the main building of the Polish Ministry of Finance with (Piotr Dziedzic), who holds the position of Inspector General for Financial Information Affairs in addition to his other positions as Deputy Polish Finance Minister and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Treasury in the Republic of Poland. .
The statement added that “the decision recently taken by the European Commission, which includes the inclusion of Iraq in the list of high-risk countries, on the issue of money laundering and terrorist financing,” was mentioned, indicating its “opposition to the Iraqi government’s efforts in this regard at the local and international levels.”
The statement quoted Al-Safi as stressing “the strength of the bilateral relations that bind both the republics of Iraq and Poland at all levels.”
For his part, the Polish Deputy Minister of Finance expressed his “full understanding of the Iraqi government’s efforts in this regard,” pledging to “make efforts and take necessary measures by his country’s government to raise the name of Iraq among the list of high-risk countries in the European Union.”
Ali al-Rubaie