************* PM @HaiderAlAbadi praises the development of Iraq's economy and encourages investment and diversification in his weekly press conference:

https://twitter.com/IraqiGovt/status/895272138881544192/video/1

Now here is part of Al-Abadi speech,

Abadi in his press conference: agreed to some dates of the start of battles to liberate the remaining areas

BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (KUNA) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Monday that the results of the Iraqi investigation did not confirm "until now" the bombing of the international coalition of forces from the popular crowd near the Iraqi-Syrian border on Monday.

"There are no red lines on Iraqi forces inside Iraqi territory, there is no foreign force fighting in Iraq, and there are US troops on the Syrian side," Abadi told the weekly press conference.

"We do not have a rally outside Iraq and any force that comes out of the border is not in the crowd because the popular mobilization is an Iraqi body that operates according to the law."

"The intelligence of the crowd said they did not know about Beshi and the joint operations said that Da'ash used sophisticated guns and a car bomb, but we have no confirmation of the ground if the incident was outside the Iraqi border in Syria," Abadi said. "He said.

"The results of the investigation so far have not confirmed this issue," Abadi said. "There is no authority for the international coalition to bomb without the knowledge of Iraq," he said. .

"On the military side, we continue to prepare for the liberation of Tal Afar, Hawija, its environs and areas west of Anbar, and the plans have been completed and some dates have been agreed upon," he said.

He added that "liberated cities began to recover, including the recent opening of the industrial district in Fallujah as it will restore the economic activity in the city was also contracted with companies producing electricity to supply energy to Nineveh and are now operating the power station dam Mosul.

Abadi said "during the past period has been arrested several gangs of kidnapping and organized crimes," calling citizens to the news of any kidnapping quickly as an important aspect in the follow-up crime and dozens of operations were thwarted thanks to this speed and the activity of the security services on this side marked.

The prime minister revealed that "the holding of tanks [T90] with Russia is old and was to equip an armored brigade and the agreement was modified to half of the brigade because of financial scarcity and soon will be supplied to Iraq."

He stressed that "our strategy is to diversify the economy and a higher committee was formed to take care of this, but there is a delay due to red tape, corruption and this committee to support investment in Iraq and aims to stimulate the economy and create jobs and there is great interest in them."

He pointed out that "the issuance of Iraqi treasury bonds by Iraqi decision and full potential without any external support in this framework, and two years ago we put a billion dollars and the turnout was average and surprised us at high interest 11.5% and the bonds were canceled."

"We repeated this year after the reform and economic reforms and increased the credit rating because of the reforms and put back a billion dollars and the requests came six times from the previous interest rate 6.7, which is a huge decline and demonstrates the large demand and low interest demonstrates confidence in the Iraqi economy, and we continue to reform and provide a good environment for investments "He said.

"We hear rumors that the popular crowd is making a demographic change, but the reality on the ground lies, but the transfer of the citizen from one province to another is permitted, but displacement and disinfection is unacceptable," Abadi said of the news that the Peshmerga forces refused to return displaced people to disputed areas in Nineveh and Diyala.

He added: "As for the disputed areas, it is a problem and there is a constitution in which the article discusses this and this is not only the province of Kurdistan, but even between the provinces, a dispute for more than 50 years, and even the former regime involved in demographic change."

"Iraq today is for everyone and we are surprised why the other insists that this region is Kurdish or Arab," he said, calling for "cooperation to serve the population regardless of the sect and nationality of the people of this region and others."

"We have tried to change the demographics of the areas occupied but failed in the unity of our forces from the army and the Peshmerga." He called on "the region to discuss all the files and our hearts are open so we want political meetings between the blocs because the conflict will waste the Iraqi wealth again, but the agreement and cooperation achieve progress and we have no choice in Iraq But living together, there is no need for separation and living alone and Iraq is unified under the Constitution. "

"We are working to repatriate displaced people in all areas, including those controlled by the Peshmerga, and we must cooperate to return the displaced because it is their right," he said.

"There is no authority for the government to accept secession," he said. "We are still united now and tomorrow in the unity of Iraq."

And on the previous investigations into the fall of the city of Mosul and the crime of Spyker said Abbadi "As for the terrible crime of Spyker continue to pursue the criminals and will not calm us and some of them outside Iraq, and will not keep silent about this and continue to uncover the graves of victims of Spyker and we will pursue the perpetrators even if it lasted years, and there are countries cooperating in this file "He said.

"The government is investigating more broadly from the judicial side and we have a complete plan for that. We are waiting for the end of the military operation and the liberation of the territories to prevent the entry of the case on charges," he said. Finished

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