Today, Sunday, the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Farhad Atrushi, received the Italian Ambassador to Iraq, Niccolò Fontana, to discuss strengthening bilateral relations and the activation of parliamentary, economic and development cooperation mechanisms between the two countries. The latest developments in the political arena in Iraq were reviewed, and the continuation of the dialogues and understandings between Baghdad and Erbil, and the entitlements of the Kurdistan Region to the general budget were discussed.