Russian Minister Heads to Iraq

摘要

Russia's Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko is heading to Iraq to discuss oil cooperation in a move that analysts say could result in a revival of contracts from the Saddam Hussein era. "I'm going to visit Baghdad early August," he told journalists last week at the launching ceremony of Russia's Sakhalin-Khabarovsk- Vladivostok gas pipeline. Shmatko added that oil cooperation would top the agenda for his visit.