Iraq Seeks More Aid From the U.S. to Manage Coronavirus Fallout
- Country coping with pandemic and decline in its oil revenue
- Designate for health minister says U.S. has promised to help
Iraqi Shiite clerics make masks in a mosque in Baghdad on April 27.
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Iraq is seeking financial assistance from the U.S. to help the country combat the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and plummeting oil revenue, the country’s health minister-designate said.
“We have been promised by the United States government as part of this strategy between Iraq and United States to help us financially,” Jaafar Allawi said on Wednesday during an online policy forum organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “I think there is a team negotiating now, or in the process of negotiation, to get Iraq some support, financial support, from America.”