Press Release: EU-Iraq: negotiations for a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement enter final stage

On 12-13 November 2009 the European Commission and the Government of Iraq held another round of negotiations in Brussels aimed at concluding a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). This was the ninth round of talks since negotiations started in November 2006. In 2009, rounds have already been held in Baghdad (February) and Brussels (May). The negotiations will be led on the Iraqi side by Mohammed Haj Hammoud, Deputy-Minister of Foreign Affairs and by Hugues Mingarelli, Deputy Director-General for External Relations, for the Commission.