Iraq and UAE's Masdar sign a 1 thousand megawatts solar power contract - INA

Iraq and the United Arab Emirates' Masdar signed a one thousand megawatt contract on Wednesday to build five solar power plants in Iraq, the Iraqi state news agency (INA) reported.

The United Arab Emirates' energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei arrived in Baghdad earlier on Wednesday, met his Iraqi counterpart and discussed bilateral cooperation. The Iraqi energy minister said in a joint conference with Mazrouei that "Iraq hopes for a second stage of the project to be implemented soon with a capacity of another one thousand megawatts".

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