Iraq hosts historic summit with Jordanian, Egyptian leaders
The visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to Baghdad is the first by an Egyptian head of state since 1990.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah met in Baghdad June 27, the fourth such meeting among Iraqi, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders in less than three years. The trip had been postponed twice due to a train crash in Egypt and political crisis in Jordan.
The three leaders had previously met in Amman in August 2020, and former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi also met with the other two leaders twice, in Cairo and New York.
The Iraqi government has adopted a new foreign policy to build an economic alliance with Arab countries toward the west.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called this new alliance “New East” in his meeting with the other two leaders in Amman. He has also referred to it as “New Levant."
