Iraq and Lebanon plan to sign a series of trade agreements in coming weeks, including one on Iraq exporting oil to Lebanon, the prime ministers of the two countries said Wednesday. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's one-day trip to Baghdad was only the third such visit by a top Arab leader since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the Associated Press reported. At a news conference alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Saniora offered support for Iraq and urged other Arab states to do the same. «I do believe that Iraq's return to the Arabs and the Arabs' return to Iraq is a key goal and we all have to work to achieve it,» he said. Al-Maliki said the two countries would sign several agreements, including one outlining Iraqi oil exports to Lebanon, but provided no details. «There were talks about oil, cooperation in the oil industry, oil exports and supplying Lebanon with Iraqi oil according to an agreement,» the Iraqi prime minister said. Saniora, who was accompanied by four Cabinet ministers, said the agreements would be signed in coming weeks. He said he found a «strong will from the Iraqi government to start cooperation in this field.»
