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The Ministry of Planning, on Sunday, announced the inclusion of the budget in 2015 a special provision for the establishment of a fund for the reconstruction of areas affected by the terrorist attacks, and showed that the Iraqi government has allocated $ 500 billion dinars for the Fund, calling for the World Bank to provide loans and contribute to building cities for the displaced and the establishment of hospitals.
The ministry said in a statement received "long", a copy of it, that "the Planning Minister Salman Jumaili Search with the Special Representative of the Mission of the World Bank in Iraq Robert presence during his meeting with him in the ministry's headquarters in fact funded by the World Bank in the framework of national strategic projects to alleviate poverty in Iraq ".
"We also discussed the possibility of the bank providing the appropriate credit to help the Iraqi government to rebuild cities damaged by terrorist attacks, as well as the construction of mobile hospitals to provide medical services to the displaced families and destroyed by terrorism."
Jumaily said that "the economic situation in Iraq is facing difficulties due to the drop in oil prices in the global market requires finding adequate to compensate for the problem of low prices resources", adding that "the important problem we face today is the displaced who have left their cities because of the terrorist attacks as affected those cities around large and become a bilateral problem. "
He added that "the government required to do the reconstruction of these cities, particularly in the residential side, where she was to the entire mass neighborhoods, as well as to be providing the appropriate requirements of life for the displaced who were deployed in all the provinces of Iraq."
He called Jumaili the World Bank to the need to contribute to the rebuilding of cities and help the displaced process by providing for the construction of residential complexes fast alternative to neighborhoods devastated by the loans to build mobile hospitals to provide appropriate medical services for displaced people wherever they are. "
He announced, "included the state budget for the year 2015 a special item for the establishment of a special fund for the reconstruction of the affected areas with a capital of 500 billion dinars," calling on the World Bank to "support the fund through appropriate structural his preparation and provide grants and loans to help to do the job that came from for it. " The statement said the World Bank expressed its readiness to assist Iraq in structural reconstruction fund for the affected cities and contribute to the serious preparation in the search for sources of financing trends Iraqi government in the reconstruction process and building mobile hospitals, "he said, adding" the possibility that the Iraqi private sector plays an important role in this area ".
He pointed out that "the World Bank managed over the years to help the Iraqi side in the implementation of many of the important projects in the electricity, agriculture and transport sectors," noting that "Among the projects that the bank contributed to the implementation of a project to produce electricity at a cost of $ 750 million and another for drinking water Card 150 000 cubic meters provides water to the capital of Baghdad for 5 hours straight, "pointing to" the existence of other projects, including Basra irrigation project at a cost of $ 80 million and will be completed in August next. "
He added that "there was a project last to put the safety signs on the Iraqi railway network stretching from Baghdad to Umm Qasr at a cost of million dollars, as well as to participate in the rehabilitation of the road from southern Iraq until the Jordanian border westward along the 1000 km for the Ministry of Municipalities and the Iraqi Works."
He expressed the readiness of the World Bank's "help Iraq in a lot of areas that will push the pace of development forward." Iraqi Central Bank, warned on Sunday, citizens of dealing banknotes do not deal with foreign banks, calling for a focus in their dealings with the Iraqi currency notes and those currencies which handles the central bank.
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