DHAKA: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi arrived in Iraq on Sunday in the first such visit since before the 2003 US-led invasion.

The foreign ministry said, reports The Straits Times.

It is ‘the first visit to Baghdad by a high-ranking Chinese official since 2003’, the ministry said in a statement on its website.

Wang and senior officials will discuss ‘developing bilateral relations and regional and international issues’, the statement said.

Oil is likely to be on the agenda.

BDST: 1749 HRS, FEB 23, 2014