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Washington: The Iraqis do not pay attention to our projects
Date: Monday, 01/30/2012 11:18
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newspaper "Washington Post," U.S. Inspector U.S. on Iraq, Stuart Bowen, said the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, handed Iraqi officials a financial report incomplete for development projects funded by the United States in Iraq, making it more difficult for Iraqis to manage and take advantage of them.
According to Bowen, in his remarks to the newspaper the U.S., it is "After eight years, we still do not have the complete novel about what we presented to the Iraqis ... they need to know what is before them now, and where are the gaps."
report published by the agency, Kurdistan News, He said the U.S. considered the Inspector that the list of unfinished projects and funding of the U.S., reflecting the mismanagement of the filing by various U.S. agencies which funded projects in Iraq. Bowen explained that "there were not unity of command, and unity of effort."
According to the list, it includes 5289 projects at a cost of about $ 15 billion until the date of June 30, 2011, according to the report of the audit. In fact, Bowen said that there are tens of thousands of projects that a total cost estimated around $ 40 billion.
The newspaper pointed out that among the projects funded by the Americans, roads, schools and police stations.
Bowen said that the officials of the U.S. State Department registered only large-scale projects, which were expenditures of not less than 250 thousand dollars, and that funding had been submitted from one of the U.S. four main providers of funds.
and wrote the Inspector the U.S. in his report that he "is not clear were not projects of less than 250 thousand dollars of interest" for the Iraqi government. The report points out that many of the projects carried out the U.S. years ago and quickly by the soldiers and U.S. officials as part of efforts to make the Iraqis. In response to Bowen's report, she said, "The Washington Post," The U.S. embassy officials in Baghdad said they had reached a negotiated agreement with Iraq in order to focus government resources on a few projects with large cost. As the embassy officials that the U.S. agencies have records of previous projects and that the criticism of auditors, failed to acknowledge that Iraq has become has more control over the projects.
The newspaper quoted a U.S. diplomat at the embassy, Peter Wood said the United States "no longer carry out reconstruction projects for the benefit of Government of Iraq, but with the Government of Iraq. "
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