Minister of Transport: Land transport agreements with Jordan and Egypt will enter into force soon
Minister of Transport: Land transport agreements with Jordan and Egypt will enter into force soon
11-4-2026
Transport Minister Wahab al-Hassani announced on Wednesday that land transport agreements between Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt will soon come into effect. Speaking to the official news agency on the sidelines of his participation in the 39th regular session of the Council of Arab Transport Ministers, held at the headquarters of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Alexandria, al-Hassani said: “This meeting is important, especially as the world is going through regional and international circumstances.” He expressed his hope that “the decisions taken during it will contribute to achieving results that will be implemented in the near future.”
He added that “there are some agreements between the Republic of Iraq, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Arab Republic of Egypt regarding land transport, and we hope that they will come into effect in the near future.”
Regarding the Development Road project, Al-Hassani stressed that “the Development Road is a strategic project, extending for a distance of 1200 kilometers from Basra to the Turkish border, and it enjoys the attention of the Prime Minister, as well as the Turkish President.”
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