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On: Friday 29/7/2011 6:07
Baghdad / agencies
called on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the necessity of activating the role of the provinces and increase their potential and their powers and to support it, calling on local governments to involve the private sector in construction and reconstruction projects and investment.
Maliki said, according to a statement issued by his office during his meeting with the governors and heads of provincial councils in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister for Services Affairs Saleh al-Mutlaq, the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Turhan Mufti and Chairman of the National Investment Sami Araji The provinces need a lot of facilities and to mitigate the complications that hinder the or disrupt their work. "
Maliki confirmed the necessity of activating the role of the provinces and increase its potential and its competence and support, noting that "could refer a lot of projects to the provinces through enhanced coordination and cooperation between them and the ministries."
Maliki has demanded local governments to "engage the private sector in the construction process The reconstruction and investment. "
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanded on July 3 of this, all Iraqi provinces to activate the private sector and investment companies, and not to limit the chances of reconstruction, however, the state, stressing that Iraq has become one of the largest countries in the region attractive for investment, with definitive number of journalists round-Maliki governorate of Karbala after an attack to protect a number of them.
The parliament approved in October of 2006, the Investment Law No. 13, who said at the time that it will open the doors wide open to foreign investment, due to introducing a lot of facilities to foreign investors, many of foreign companies are still reluctant to come because of fear of the security situation is stable in Iraq, adding that the law equated between Iraqi investors and foreign, in all privileges except the right of foreign ownership of real estate on the project, and replace with the adoption of his right to lease land for 50 years, renewable, according to paragraph 11 of the investment law.
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