Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi met with the U.S. ambassador to Iraq and maintained that “Iraq will not be a proxy arena for settling affairs or a launch pad for attacking any neighbouring or friendly country”. Al-Kadhimi also met with Iran’s ambassador, who reported that “bilateral cooperation, continuation of actions regarding the 1975 Algiers Agreement, banking cooperation, Khorramshahr-Basra railway and visa for the two countries’ citizens were discussed”.