Today Armenian Foreign Minister Deputy Ruben Shugarian received Iraqi FM's advisor Tariq Mohammad Yahya. In the course of the meeting the interlocutors underscored that Armenia always abided by balanced policy on the Iraqi crisis and was for the soonest and peaceful resolving of the problem accentuating the realization of humanitarian actions and programs in the post-war period. Mustafa Jaf, the Director of Novruz Group Holding, who was also present at the meeting, expressed readiness to develop trade-economic relations with Armenia and to found an Armenian-Iraqi joint venture and a bank, as well as to export Armenian commodities to Iraq. The Iraqi party also pointed out to the importance of launching Yerevan-Baghdad-Yerevan direct air flights.