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Armenia and Egypt have kicked off a new round of talks on economic and technical cooperation for the first time in over a decade, Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, September 27, Ahram Online says.

Experts from the two countries met for the fifth round of a bilateral cooperation committee, Egypt’s ambassador to ArmeniaTarek Maaty said in a statement.

The committee last met in Cairo in 2005.

The talks are especially important as they highlight “the determination of the two sides to push forward economic, trade and technical cooperation,” the statement added.

A number of agreements are expected to be signed on bilateral cooperation.

Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan has said he looks forward to a visit by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to the country, Maaty said.

Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian also renewed his invitation to Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry to visit Yerevan.

In July, Egypt and Armenia launched a regular flight connection between the two countries, as they celebrated 25 years since the signing of a 1992 agreement creating bilateral diplomatic ties.

SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Kurdish people have once again started to migrate to European countries as the crises in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have become further complicated.

Part of the workers in Sulaimani second hand markets told NRT on Monday Kurdish people have resumed selling equipment in their homes to migrate to European countries.

“When we go to the houses, they say they sell everything except their clothes,” a worker at Sulaimani second hand markets said. “For example, I paid $9,000 [for the equipment of] three houses yesterday.”

“There are people who sell their equipment to go to abroad,” another worker said.

The head of the Kurdistan Branch of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR), Ari Jalal, told NRT Kurds’ migration has widely resumed as the political and economic situation in the Kurdistan Region remains unclear.

“Despite the difficulties with the routes to Europe, people have begun immigration to European countries just like the previous years due to the lack of payment, jobs, and unemployment with the hope of a better and deserved life,” Jalal said.

According to the federation’s statistics, 240,000 people from the Kurdistan Region and Iraq have traveled to Turkey as tourists in the first six months of this year. Most of them have gone to Greek and Italian coasts, the statistics indicated.

Up to 300 people have died en route to Europe in the last three years, and 48 bodies of Iraqi and Kurdish people have also gone missing.

Source: http://ekurd.net/iraqi-kurds-resume-immigration-2017-07-25