New decisions of the Council of Ministers

New decisions of the Council of Ministers

7.11.2013


* Hold an urgent meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs
* prevent the import of electrical appliances and equipment that lead to high consumption of energy
* a decrease in the poverty rate in Iraq by 4%.
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The need to form a committee of specialists to prepare draft includes provisions punitive and correctional and social for bypassing the promoters of the phenomenon of begging and homelessness
Zuhair Fatlawi
allocated Council of Ministers at its twenty-ninth session, which was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to discuss the topic of electric power, and postponed the Cabinet agenda Regular scheduled in advance because of the suffering caused by the lack of electric power.

Discussed cabinet reasons for not achieving the production of electrical energy reduction required, and the level at least to plan the future, and to identify those responsible for it, stressing the need to work to overcome the difficulties and obstacles that can help improve production rates.

Cabinet decided to continue to support plans to increase the production of electric power and escalating rates of work, noting that the production of electrical energy still inadequate, despite the improvement in production, and formation of a committee under the supervision of the Prime Minister and the chairmanship of the President of the advisers and the membership of representatives of the Ministries of Finance and Planning, oil and electricity, in addition to representatives of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, to follow up and investigate the work and energy production and stand on the problems and difficulties that hinder the arrival of production the amount needed to resolve the electricity crisis.

The Cabinet decided to hold an urgent meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs d. Hussain al-Shahristani and the membership of the Ministers of Finance and Planning, electricity and oil for the purpose of studying the problems and challenges facing the sector, production, distribution and suggest ways and solutions to overcome these difficulties and make recommendations to the Commission on the problem above for the purpose of presenting the results to the Cabinet .

Cabinet approved the establishment of the Ministry of Commerce required classes electrical allowed to be imported and prevent the import of electrical appliances and equipment quality that lead to high consumption of energy, and in coordination with the Ministry of Electricity and stakeholders, identify import licenses, and accordingly, the other hand have been discussing poverty rate in Iraq since Sponsored Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Rose Nuri Shaways festive several for this purpose and in the presence of Secretary General of the Council of Ministers Ali Mohsen Ismail, as it launched a Supreme Committee for the policies of poverty alleviation new indicators to measure poverty in Iraq at the national level and the provinces for the year 2012
showed indicators for a decline in the poverty rate in Iraq by 4% from what it was in 2007, and reflected the direct comparisons for each of the Kurdistan region and Baghdad and other provinces that there is a significant impact to adopt a poverty alleviation strategy in Iraq, where he received lower the better in the poverty rate during the five years between 2007 to 2012 in the provinces and in rural areas, although the levels are still high.

Said Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, in his speech Balahtphalah that the launch of this census has been without government intervention or to look pleasing party.

While praised the Minister of Planning Ali Shukri achievements made ​​by the Central Bureau of Statistics, considering the launch of new indicators of the poverty line represents an important achievement for the Ministry of Planning.

For his part, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning and Chairman of the Permanent Technical Committee of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Mahdi Keywords that sample census included more than 200 thousand citizens, representing more than 25 thousand families, indicating that the average household expenditure rose a little bit about the past, and found that per capita spending in the countryside at least spend the citizens in urban areas.

Said Keywords that indicators showed lower levels of poverty in rural areas more than urban areas, as the rate of decline of poverty in rural areas amounted to 8% in urban areas amounted to 2%.

Attended the ceremonial Minister Labour and Social Affairs Nassar al-Rubaie and the Minister of Human Rights Mohammed Sudanese Minister of State for Women's Affairs Ibtihal al-Zaidi and a number of members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the President of the National Investment Commission Sami al-Araji and Undersecretary of Ministry of Planning Mahdi Keywords collection of experts and specialists. while
called the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to address the phenomenon of begging by the elimination of the most important causes leading to them and activate the national campaign to reduce poverty and achieve the integration and maintenance of the dignity of the citizen.

And during chaired Director General Affairs Department of the citizens and public relations Mohammed Taher al-Tamimi meeting deliberative fourth to reduce the phenomenon of begging and homelessness.

Between the source of the circuit that the most prominent, as recommended by The meeting is the need to form a committee of specialists from various stakeholders to draft a special project includes texts punitive and correctional and social for bypassing the promoters of the phenomenon of begging and homelessness, as well as the opening of rehabilitation centers under the auspices of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs for the rehabilitation of the homeless and their integration in the society.

Meeting was attended by representatives of the Supreme Judicial Council The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Services Affairs and the Ministries of the Interior, Human Rights and Labor and Social Affairs and the National Security Agency and the Baghdad Operations Command and the deputy governor of Baghdad.

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