The Tripartite summit held in Baghdad, on Sunday, between the Egyptian president, the Jordanian king, and Iraqi officials focused on economic, security and trade cooperation between the three Arab countries.

"The Baghdad Tripartite Summit, which brings together the Republic of Iraq, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Arab Republic of Egypt, aims to strengthen partnership relations within the trilateral cooperation mechanism between them, and based on the sincere desire of the three countries to enhance means of cooperation and increase coordination mechanisms within the political, economic, commercial, industrial, security and other fields," the Iraqi goverenment website reported in a statement.

On the sidelines of the tripartite summit between the leaders of these countries, the foreign ministers of the three countries stressed the importance of "joint cooperation" between them "to achieve the best for the entire region."

This is the first summit of its kind in Baghdad, and the third held by the leaders of the three countries after meetings, the first of which was on the sidelines of the United Nations meetings in New York, last September, and a second meeting in the Jordanian capital, Amman, months ago.

These meetings come after a meeting held in Cairo during the era of the former Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi.

It is also the first visit of an Egyptian president to Iraq, three decades after the visit of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to Baghdad in July 1990.