WARSAW, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Iraqi President Fuad Masoum said Monday that Polish enterprises were welcome in Iraq and his country needed partners to rebuild its infrastructure.
"We thank Poland for its part in the reconstruction of Iraq, for its help in fighting terrorism from our country," Masoum told a joint press conference after meeting with Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda.
Masoum, on a two-day visit to Poland, said Polish soldiers had helped in the fight against the Islamic State.
"They (Polish troops) have made a huge sacrifice. You have made a major contribution to the struggle against the Islamic State. Iraq has gone through a very difficult time, but we have managed to succeed in this struggle," the Iraqi president said.
Asked about Poland's stand on the conflict between Iraq's Kurds and the country's government, Duda said the most essential thing was that Iraq possessed its system and its own constitution. Poland fully supported Iraq's territorial integrity and political cohesion, he said.
"These are the boundaries within which, in our belief, Iraqi-Kurdish relations should be upheld, based on dialogue," Duda said.
According to the Polish president's top aide Krzysztof Szczerski, in the first seven months of 2017, bilateral trade between Poland and Iraq rose 40 percent year on year. Two-way trade stood at 500 million U.S. dollars in 2016, official data showed.
