RCD continues its preparations for holding RCD Security and Economic Forum due to be held in September 2019, at Babel Hotel in Baghdad, where Mr. Farhad Alaa al-Din, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Forum and members of the Board of Directors of RCD met with Mr. Eduard Bendersky, President of the Iraqi-Russian Trade Council in Moscow.

Mr. Bendersky reviewed the Russian commercial activities in Iraq, which are specialized in the fields of energy, stressing that RCD Security and Economic Forum, is an opportunity to develop trade relations and exchange of experiences in the security sector between the two countries with the participation of Russian companies in all vital and financial sectors. He added that holding the Forum in the capital Baghdad is a rare opportunity to gather Iraqi decision-makers and international companies that wish to work in Iraq.

It is worth mentioning that RCD has been working for months to hold a forum on security, economic and energy issues for its strategic importance in Iraq, the Middle East and the Near East, amid major challenges facing the region and the overlapping of policies and the important geographical location of Iraq, which gave it agreater role at all political and economic levels, as well as the security one.