Abadi: Start implementation service and urgent humanitarian projects in "liberated areas" soon
Jun 28, 2015
BAGHDAD - Anatolia: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, that the face of the signing of the project document with the United Nations Development Programme to manage the implementation of service and urgent humanitarian projects in the areas liberated from the control of "state regulation".
In his first weekly speech broadcast on state television on Sunday, al-Abadi said he was "the face of the signing of the project document with the United Nations Development Programme to manage the implementation of service and urgent humanitarian projects in the liberated areas."
He explained that "the activities of these projects will be launched in the next few days", without giving more details about these projects or areas that will take off in it.
With regard to the economic situation, the Prime Minister said, "Despite the challenges we face after a significant decline in oil our revenues, with the increasing needs to sustain the battle momentum in fighting terrorists, but significant increases in oil production volumes in exports, confirming that the country as we pointed out repeatedly not bankrupt and that financial distress in which we live requires the concerted efforts of the State in all the joints. "
Abadi also pointed out, to take his government's actions "have prevented a further decline in the local currency exchange rate against the dollar", and said that speculators "were standing behind the decline in the local currency."
And Aazzoa Central Bank of Iraq, according to statements by officials in it, the decline of the dinar exchange rate against the dollar during the last period, to the exploitation of describing them as "speculators" of the owners of the private sector exchange companies, and who receive a dollar from the central bank at 1190 dinars to the dollar, and they to raise prices for importers and citizens.
He pointed out the prime minister that the recent meeting of the crisis cell in Baghdad, stressed the need to "abide by the terms agreed with the Kurdistan region, to ensure the payment of cash benefits for the region in which the Government has committed to fully, with the importance of the region's commitment to deliver the agreed quantities of oil and installed in the Budget Law for the year 2015 , which unfortunately did not abide by the region so far. "
According to the agreement, which was approved by the Iraqi Council of Ministers in December 2 last, that "the Kurdistan region to hand over at least 250 thousand barrels of oil per day, to the Federal Government for the purpose of export, the export of 300 thousand barrels per day by the federal government , fields of Kirkuk province (north), via the oil pipeline in the territory of northern Iraq. "
Iraq relies on oil imports, to finance 95% of its budget, and produces about 2.5 million barrels per day, with expectations to increase production to four million barrels per day.
And announced the Ministry of Natural Resources in the government of the northern region of Iraq, earlier this month, for its exports of crude oil for the month of May / May last, rose to a daily rate, was about 578 barrels, through the Turkish port of Ceyhan, noting that it delivered the Iraqi National Oil Marketing Company "Sumo" an average of more than 448 barrels of oil per day.
Officials say the government held northern Iraq, that Baghdad send monthly payments, much less than its share of the budget, despite the fact that the region is pumped, currently, up to the agreed amount of oil, while officials in Baghdad say, that the region did not issue quantity agreed them.
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Jun 28, 2015
BAGHDAD - Anatolia: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, that the face of the signing of the project document with the United Nations Development Programme to manage the implementation of service and urgent humanitarian projects in the areas liberated from the control of "state regulation".
In his first weekly speech broadcast on state television on Sunday, al-Abadi said he was "the face of the signing of the project document with the United Nations Development Programme to manage the implementation of service and urgent humanitarian projects in the liberated areas."
He explained that "the activities of these projects will be launched in the next few days", without giving more details about these projects or areas that will take off in it.
With regard to the economic situation, the Prime Minister said, "Despite the challenges we face after a significant decline in oil our revenues, with the increasing needs to sustain the battle momentum in fighting terrorists, but significant increases in oil production volumes in exports, confirming that the country as we pointed out repeatedly not bankrupt and that financial distress in which we live requires the concerted efforts of the State in all the joints. "
Abadi also pointed out, to take his government's actions "have prevented a further decline in the local currency exchange rate against the dollar", and said that speculators "were standing behind the decline in the local currency."
And Aazzoa Central Bank of Iraq, according to statements by officials in it, the decline of the dinar exchange rate against the dollar during the last period, to the exploitation of describing them as "speculators" of the owners of the private sector exchange companies, and who receive a dollar from the central bank at 1190 dinars to the dollar, and they to raise prices for importers and citizens.
He pointed out the prime minister that the recent meeting of the crisis cell in Baghdad, stressed the need to "abide by the terms agreed with the Kurdistan region, to ensure the payment of cash benefits for the region in which the Government has committed to fully, with the importance of the region's commitment to deliver the agreed quantities of oil and installed in the Budget Law for the year 2015 , which unfortunately did not abide by the region so far. "
According to the agreement, which was approved by the Iraqi Council of Ministers in December 2 last, that "the Kurdistan region to hand over at least 250 thousand barrels of oil per day, to the Federal Government for the purpose of export, the export of 300 thousand barrels per day by the federal government , fields of Kirkuk province (north), via the oil pipeline in the territory of northern Iraq. "
Iraq relies on oil imports, to finance 95% of its budget, and produces about 2.5 million barrels per day, with expectations to increase production to four million barrels per day.
And announced the Ministry of Natural Resources in the government of the northern region of Iraq, earlier this month, for its exports of crude oil for the month of May / May last, rose to a daily rate, was about 578 barrels, through the Turkish port of Ceyhan, noting that it delivered the Iraqi National Oil Marketing Company "Sumo" an average of more than 448 barrels of oil per day.
Officials say the government held northern Iraq, that Baghdad send monthly payments, much less than its share of the budget, despite the fact that the region is pumped, currently, up to the agreed amount of oil, while officials in Baghdad say, that the region did not issue quantity agreed them.
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