Today .. Al-Alak visits Kuwait to discuss the obligations of (reconstruction of Iraq)

06/5/2018 12:00 am

 Baghdad / Omar Abdul Latif
The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, Dr. Mahdi Al-Alak, calls on the State of Kuwait to visit on Sunday to draw up a detailed plan for the commitments made at the Iraq Reconstruction Conference, while stressing that security is no longer an obsession for investors or companies wishing to enter the country.

This comes at a time denied spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hadithi described the evasion of the countries participating in the Kuwait Conference of donor countries, of their obligations to Iraq, noting that they were not obliged to make their offers.

Al-Alak said in a press conference attended by Al-Sabah: After the end of the Kuwait conference last February, the Council of Ministers met with representatives of countries, ambassadors, representatives of international funds and agencies and agreed that each party that made commitments at the Kuwait Conference will fill a special form prepared in coordination with the World Bank. It has now received 17 form from those countries.

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Today .. Al-Alak visits Kuwait to discuss the obligations of «reconstruction of Iraq»
   

06/5/2018 12:00 am

Al-Hadithi denies that the countries participating in the conference are evasive
Baghdad / Al-Sabah

The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers Mehdi Al-Alaq meets the call of the State of Kuwait to visit on Sunday to develop a detailed plan of commitments made at the Conference on the reconstruction of Iraq, and while he stressed that security is no longer an obsession for investors or companies wishing to enter the country, visit a Qatari investment delegation Iraq in the few weeks Coming.

This came at a time when the spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hadithi, evading the countries participating in the Kuwait Conference of donor countries, their obligations to Iraq, noting that they were not obliged to make their offers.

Al-Alak said in a press conference attended by Al-Sabah: After the Kuwait conference in February, the Council of Ministers met with representatives of countries, ambassadors, representatives of international funds and agencies and agreed that each party that has made commitments at the Kuwait Conference will fill out a special form prepared in coordination with the World Bank. It has now received 17 form from those countries.

A high-level delegation from the Republic of Turkey visited Iraq last week and held a lengthy meeting with the Minister of Planning and the heads of the National Investment Authority and the Iraq Reconstruction Fund, in which the two sides discussed in detail the progress of the signing of agreements on the various commitments made to Iraq, , As well as a series of presentations in terms of investment aspects, and expected to complete the discussions during the next few days to begin to implement effectively the commitments made by the neighboring state.

He pointed out that he will lead a delegation including the President of the Reconstruction Fund for Iraq and the specialists in the Ministries of Health and Education to visit Kuwait on Sunday in response to an invitation by it to develop a detailed plan of commitments made with them of the officials of the Kuwait Development Fund, in addition to discussing the Kuwaiti grant related to support the health sector and the loan The facilitator for the construction of 73 schools, pointing out that a Qatari investment delegation will visit Iraq in the coming weeks to start negotiating the commitments made at the Kuwait conference, while Saudi Arabia requested some details on the aspects related to investment, To the Iraqi delegation to the Arab Republic of Egypt before the end of this month to see the housing and economic projects carried out in it and discuss the desire of its companies to enter the housing sector.

The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers that the middle of this month will see the formulation of priorities in each province, whether liberated or other in terms of infrastructure and the promotion of major investments, after signing at least 13 memorandum of understanding during the investment conference held by the Secretariat General of the Council of Ministers recently in Baghdad , Pointing out that these and other investments will provide hundreds of thousands of job opportunities for young people and unemployed, in addition to increasing the domestic product and achieve significant economic savings instead of importing and looking for jobs outside Iraq.

Al-Alak pointed out that 15 companies signed agreements and investment permits with Iraq during the two months following the Kuwait Conference. We have more than 30 opportunities for partnership with the public sector to rehabilitate the major companies in the Ministry of Industry. In addition, the coming days will witness advanced agreements, Of the decisions that are in favor of investors and facilitate the procedures for the allocation of land or investment or facilitate the granting of entry features, stressing that the most prominent of these projects to invest the land of the Rasheed camp, which amounts to the area of ​​5500 acres to build a city integrated services and infrastructure As well as rehabilitating the area of ​​Baghdad airport, which is twice the size of the camp in Al-Rasheed, which will include residential complexes, advanced e-villages, consulting centers, businesses, universities and health centers.

He added that the amount of 30 billion dollars pledged to provide countries to Iraq can not be absorbed by the local economy in one year, the amount will be distributed over the coming years and according to the nature of progress in each project, stressing that the coming months will see a working session to discuss all projects and grants and investments The first of which is the German soft loan which will soon be put into operation in the rehabilitation of electric power stations in Nineveh and other regions, in addition to trading the World Bank loan in Beirut a few days ago with experts and how to activate the projects agreed upon. In the conference on housing projects and rehabilitation in the liberated areas or building residential complexes after Iraq faced in the last stage and remains a large housing deficit of more than two million housing units.

He pointed out that the security aspect is no longer an obsession for investors or other companies, but there is enthusiasm and impulse by companies to enter Iraq after the establishment of security, indicating the existence of contact with the UAE and Saudi Arabia on a continuous basis to start major projects.

The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers ruled out any scenario of withdrawal from the investment commitments adopted by the states on the basis of government or parliamentary change, stressing the discussion of the support for the humanitarian relief efforts in Kuwait soon, which has allocated about 330 million dollars to provide grants and humanitarian assistance directly and set priorities for it, Much of it to the poorest and most vulnerable areas, including the liberated areas that will be developed in this context.

On a related note, the spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, Saad al-Hadithi, said in a press statement: "The national task force, which was set up to follow up the decisions of the Kuwait conference and the results of the pledges that were presented

A) held a meeting, about a week after the return of the Iraqi delegation, with representatives of States and entities that have announced their support for the reconstruction of Iraq, to discuss the outcome of the conference », noting that« the Iraqi team asked representatives of States and others, to determine the support to be provided at the level of projects and facilities in detail . He added that «after the meeting about two weeks, a second meeting with representatives of States», stressing that «the conference saw the distribution of a form prepared by the Iraqi team, to detail the details of the pledges, and then activated in a documented and detailed, to be studied by the Iraqi government and set priorities In preparation for its implementation ».


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