Hiti: Kuwait has adopted a conference of donors to Iraq

2/28/2017 0:00 

Bokd need to expedite the adoption of the reconstruction of liberated areas Fund Act  
BAGHDAD / Omar Abdel Latif
 The head of the Fund for the reconstruction of liberated areas Mustafa al-Hiti said the fund, which we hope to speed up the approval will enhance legal presence to deliver major projects in those areas, and prove to the international community and neighboring countries as a steady and sober Law, as revealed display Kuwait to adopt a conference of donors to Iraq this year, after making sure of all the projects submitted to the fund in those provinces.
He said al - Hiti , in an interview with the "morning": " The fund was established in accordance with Article 28 of the state budget for 2015 to be his personal moral being linked to the Council of Ministers, was no law in that period, but rather a system that can deal with loans and grants received from released neighboring countries and the world with allocated to fund the federal budget, but in 2016 was a surprise that there was no anything in the federal budget for what means the fund; that personal moral has become in the (air), and to avoid this situation , I realized the prime minister and worked the so - called ministerial Committee without that , there will be a system or structure of the Fund and sufficiency by giving some of its previous powers, and without the presence of the law can not allocate money to any institution , including the Fund. " Significant damage confirmed al - Hiti, that when he joined the IMF in November last year surprised the existence of the title of " the reconstruction of liberated areas Fund . " He said: "Such a thing is a very big problem and can not be waived, The Fund relies on international loans and grants, and her work is like development support to some countries that have been affected economies as a result of disasters or wars or other funds, and when our follow - up of the subject and found that there is a law in the State Consultative Council and when accessed saw he was not commensurate with the extent of the damage in the provinces, which cover the reconstruction and the work of exceptionally abnormal, making us need a huge box when you see that half of Iraq's provinces (Anbar, Salahuddin and Nineveh and rock cliff in northern Babil and Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, part of the Diyala governorate) has been affected control "Daesh" gangs and the destruction of infrastructure which, at the time that countries grant loans but at No truth the guarantor and protected by law that can be relied upon receipt of such amounts. " He said al - Hiti said: "If I want the fund to be desired reconstruction level it need this law so that he can (institutionalize) properly, it can not rely on a simple and modest commission to build the affected area of the land of Iraq and the manner of reconstruction, and can not for 15 people to do this work , starting from the receipt of loans and the end of the reconstruction without the presence of one engineer , but that all of these employees are assigned and there are any of them on the permanent staffing. " Lack of professional staff and the Fund 's chairman : "We we decided the placement of 100 engineers have carried out 152 projects the end of last year from Sinjar to Anbar and in record time for 40 days at a cost of 20 billion dinars, within the fund where there is no even the structure, since there is a president has the rank of minister but not There is even described the director within the formations and such a thing raises the question and surprising at the same time if we really are serious about the reconstruction of the affected areas, as there can be in terms of relying on one person the rank of minister, while there are spaces for those who come after functionally, we asked the legal department of the Fund that In addition to the law , at least the first two directorates general categories of technical and engineering affairs and the second administrative, legal and Undersecretary of things or vice president because the latter can not interfere with the signing of services to major projects. " Hiti He said he "will soon be in a meeting with the relevant committees in the House of Representatives after his invitation to visit and discuss existing in the Council of State law and the need to speed up the finalization of it and passed, after he saw the need for a fund to operate reliably and structured the law because the percentage of the damages in the liberated areas calls for speeding passage of a law making the international community trusts, so we will try to combine what they have from the concepts in this direction and the Fund of the ideas presented to the Council of State, at the same time, the law will enhance its presence to deliver major projects to the international community and neighboring countries that there is a real point of steady and solid and can still stroke of a pen. " He cautioned the President that "restore confidence among the citizens of these regions and the state needs to build human and walls and bringing investment to these areas, it is not enough that we are trying to build a human without that there are factors to build or live in those areas and thus become fertile loose any terrorist act or incubator for sabotage operations in one way or another. " Challenges and obstacles , and on the challenges that the fund faced during the last stage; hinted Hiti to the presence of a lot of projects in those areas , but the speculative estimates , which were sent to the Fund 's "unrealistic", some even exist ratios damage where simple, while proven to have been damaged fully stressing that " the amounts withheld from employees and retirees from all over Iraq , if not used properly considered as a great betrayal and great for the country, but we were able to convey explicit messages that we are a high degree of responsibility and we have seen how the people celebrated the opening of the projects in their areas , whether in Sinjar or Abu Ghraib and beholden to the Fund, and all of these acts were carried out by a few cadres in number and large its actions and carryout . "He added," as the taxpayer ( the citizen being the deduction of salary or income) can anywhere and push of a button on a system of ( GPS) to watch projects how it was some time ago and how it has been rebuilding to be reassured when he pays his money their native state, but at the same time seek to collect donations from the states instead of loans so as not mortgaging the necks of future generations and become Iraq conditional on the ground in the future. " Showing Kuwaiti hinted Hiti that "Kuwait has offered to adopt the Conference of Donors Iraq and take place on its territory , the expenses , " stressing that "such a conference was due to be held in March next year , but we demanded to delay it while making sure all the projects before us in all the affected provinces and their information and statements true for submission to the international community with high confidence, because if we gave inaccurate we will lose confidence in us again, and convince the donor or lender out and this historic responsibility and at the same time fund marketing in a realistic, real and can this thing to bring in money from every  place in the world. " He noted that " the Fund signed two weeks a soft loan from the German development Bank amounting to 500 million euros before and now we are trying to develop a strategy to divide this amount of work done, and there is talk of increasing the loan for up to one billion euros if they are needed in this direction."


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