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Diyala demanding the opening of border crossing Mandali to revive its economy
On: Wednesday 1/4/2012 7:44
□ Diyala / follow-up term economic
officials demanded in Diyala province, the federal government opened the crossing Mandali border to revive the economy, maintain and improve the living conditions of areas affected by the Iran-Iraq war in the eighties of the last century.
The director of the hand Mandali Abdul Hussain Abbas Qara Lucy told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) "We have an urgent claims to open the crossing of Mandali, called crossing (Sumer), with Iran as the main artery to revive the city of Mandalay, and an important source to revive the economic situation is low due to the deterioration of the status of agriculture as a result of drought and lack of rain."
He stressed that "the opening of the crossing will help create jobs and revive economic growth, which speeds up the return of the refugees and displaced terms since the seventies of last century, and who did not find the financial resources or economic factors that encourage their return to the side."
He called Qara Lucy the Federal Government to facilitate all procedures open crossing being subject to the terms of reference and is the shortest route or corridor border to Baghdad, "noting that" the committees visited the crossing during the past months and prepared the final reports to open it, but it was not open yet. "
"The delay in opening the crossing back to the federal government, not the Iranian side," noting "there efforts were serious management terms to facilitate all the procedures for the opening of the crossing and take advantage of the revenue abundant."
For his part, said the deputy governor of Diyala Furat al-Tamimi told (Rn) that "the opening of the port has economic returns and financial of the province and the country generally, through the exchange of goods trade and the entry of convoys of visitors arriving from neighboring Iran, "noting that" the opening demand constant of both Iraq and Iran. "
He said Tamimi, that the province addressed the Management Directorate border ports of Iraq for coordination, cooperation and obtaining approvals fundamentalism to directly open the port and make statements and surveillance necessary and create all the requirements of the opening of the port . "
He noted that the allocation of 600 acres for the establishment of facilities and construction, but the cabinet did not respond to our proposal and our demands, despite the lapse of more than a year to this demand, "adding that" open the port revive the tourism facilities in the border areas and provide employment opportunities and wide will absorb the unemployment rates widespread in large areas of the province. "
and on a related expressed official crossing Haj Omran border with Iran, Masood Ahmed, the administration's willingness crossing to raise the level of trade relations with the city (Beranchar) province of West Azarbaijan Iran bordering the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
said Ahmed, who met on the first Monday as the commander of the Beranchar Iran, "I wish to contribute to the historical relations of the population of the two regions in the perpetuation of these meetings, and relations of friendship and trade between the two parties."
The commander said the Beranchar, that "trade relations in the border areas (Tmrgen), Haj Omran continued," announcing the "desire and Beranchar Tmrgen in the development of economic and cultural fields with the Kurdistan region of Iraq," according to the agency (IRNA) of Iran.
He also commander of the Beranchar hoped to "strengthen the bilateral relations between the two sides in all areas."
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