Last night, the Iraq Britain Business Council hosted His Excellency President Dr Barham Salih for a members’ dinner at the Royal Air Force Club in Piccadilly, London. Sponsored by UB Holding, this dinner was part of the first official visit made by a President of the Republic of Iraq to the UK since 2003. In addition to yesterday’s dinner, President Dr Salih will also be meeting with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the Prime Minister, Theresa May. President Dr Salih was also joined by a delegation of Iraqi officials and businessmen including Mohamed Ali Abdelamir Mhmood Alhakim, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Aladin Abdulsahib Hasan Alwan, Minister of Health and the Environment. Rupert Soames, Chief Executive Officer of Serco was present, as was Brigadier James Ellery, Chairman of Turnkey.

President Dr Barham Salih addressed IBBC and its members after dinner, emphasising Iraq’s potential for the future, as well as his optimism for its economic prospects. Having worked alongside IBBC since 2009, President Dr Salih praised the organisation’s work, and congratulated it for all it had been able to achieve. Christophe Michels, Managing Director of the IBBC said, “We are immensely grateful to have been able to host the President once again. He has been a supporter of IBBC since our inception in 2009, and it was wonderful to mark our tenth year anniversary alongside him”. Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, President of the IBBC and the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Iraq, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan was similarly ebullient about the reception and dinner, and delighted that the event was such a success.

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