Foreign Ministry : We Received Int’l Support To Remove Iraq From The List Of High-Risk Countries

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that Iraq is receiving support from some European countries to remove its name from the list of high-risk countries in the field of money laundering.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Al-Sahaf said in a press statement that “Iraq’s mission to the European Union delivered several messages through diplomatic channels to the European Commission, as it is the body that administers the executive procedures for assessing countries’ actions in the areas of fighting money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, to inform them of the fulfillment of Iraq to the standards adopted by the European Union or the International Financial Action Task Force FATF in this field. ”

Al-Sahaf stressed that “our embassies in the European Union member states have sent similar messages to the concerned authorities in this field in those countries.”

He added: “A number of those countries have responded to the messages addressed to them, led by Germany, which is chairing the current session of the European Union, stand with Iraq in all fields.”