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Council of Ministers confirms that what has been spent on the Arab summit did not exceed $ 60 million
2012-04-17 16:54:38
BAGHDAD (Iba) ... Council of Ministers stressed that the amount of money spent on the Arab summit did not exceed $ 60 million, out of $ 480 million set aside to cover its expenses, while pointed out that all parties have contributed to its success.
A statement of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers received by the independent press (Iba) ... a copy of it on Tuesday that the amounts spent on the activities of the Arab summit hosted by the capital Baghdad at the end of last March, ranging from 50 to $ 60 million out of $ 480 million allocated to cover its expenses, indicating that the effort made to organize the Arab summit in all respects was shared between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the security forces and Baghdad Municipality and the Ministries of transport, water resources, electricity and oil.
He added that the amounts allocated named allocations summit to find a port of Mali for the rehabilitation and implementation of a number of projects for infrastructure and needed by Iraq in the coming period, Ktahill hotels, which is owned by a joint is in the form of loans will recover funds from the hotel after a period of time.
The statement continued that the work included the rehabilitation of Airport Road and the construction of 22 he may for the accommodation of the delegations near the presidential palace which is the property of the state, in addition to the rehabilitation of the Republican Palace, which displays over the past years to modifications and multiple cut and used by U.S. forces, pointing out that the Palace of the Republic has now become a place not for the summit current, but to hold conferences and summits stretch for decades.
He explained that Iraq has a real problem by providing sites for the establishment of delegations and holding of conferences and caused this problem to deprive Iraq of a number of meetings and conferences in the past years, pointing out that the Arab summit in Baghdad was an opportunity for the establishment of such important projects, which are the property of the state not linked to the development of the government.
A statement by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers that all parties have contributed in one way or another to the success of the Arab summit conference, adding that the role of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers was pivotal through the coordination of efforts and organization of work which requires the involvement of several points with the Engineering Department in the Secretariat.
Finally, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on 29 March 2012, the Arab summit twenty-third with the participation of 21 countries with the exception of Syria, which has not been invited to attend because of the suspension of its membership in the university, as well as the presence of ten Arab leaders are Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and the Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah , and the President of the Republic of Comoros Rosemary Znin, and Chairman of the Interim Libyan Mustafa Abdul Jalil, and Tunisian President Mohammed Marzouki, and Mahmoud Abbas, and Somalia Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and Omar al-Bashir, President of Lebanon General Michel, and Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh, as has been woefully absent of the kings of the Arabs Nor has any state intersection. (End)
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