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Soon begin the rehabilitation of the ancient city of Babylon
08/05/2012 2:54
Minister of Tourism: Elimination separates in D oil pipeline through the site
Hilla - Ali plumber
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Dr. Brigade Sumaisem that the issue of pipeline to transport petroleum products is currently before the courts, as announced near the initiation of a project for the rehabilitation of the ancient city and view the Babylon Hotel Tourism Investment.
He said in press conference held in the resort of Babylon tourist yesterday, attended by the (morning) that his ministry filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Oil to prevent them from continuing a project pipeline to transport petroleum products through the city of Babylon archaeological.
said Sumaisem: "The distortion of the most important archaeological sites in Iraq in this way is rejected not by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, but by all those interested in this matter as well as the local government in the province of Babylon, which opposed the project since the beginning. "
to that, he stressed Sumaisem that the ministry had prepared a plan for the rehabilitation of the city of Babylon archaeological cooperation with the local government in Babylon, noting that the Cabinet had allocated a budget of 100 billion dinars will invest for the rehabilitation of the city, pointing at the same time that the ministry has had the authority to start the project, without specifying a date to begin the work of rehabilitation. He said the ministry also plans to rehabilitate the presidential palace, located in Resort Babylon tourism and converted into a Museum of Antiquities and Heritage. at the level of a nearby, said Sumaisem that the ministry intends to rehabilitate the Hotel Babylon tourism in the city of Hilla, by introducing the investment for companies and investors, Iraqis and foreigners in order to re-work which is worthy of the status of the province of Babylon and the importance of historical and religious, as far as he put it.
and U.S. forces had occupied the building of the hotel since the events of 2003, and up to the relocation of the U.S. Consulate from the hotel to the base Kalsu, north of the province a few months before withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq.
On the other hand, the minister stressed that the ministry has succeeded recently in addition shrines Religious Babylon to the list of shrines in the cities of Karbala and Najaf, as the move will include the shrines of Babylon visits of foreign delegations, providing financial returns to maintain and increase allocations from the Federal allocated to them.
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