Prime Minister: Selling the dollar at the new price will start tomorrow and there are no red lines i

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The Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia'a Al-Sudani, confirmed that selling the dollar at the new price will start from tomorrow, Wednesday, while indicating that there are no red lines in combating corruption.
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Al-Sudani said in the press conference held today, Tuesday, followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), “The government has become 100 days old, and it has set 5 priorities since the first day to vote on it and on its ministerial platform.Its selection depends on the country's living, economic and service reality and the challenge of combating corruption." Pointing out that "the government started its work with a new experience and simple personal and financial capabilities represented by the service and engineering efforts."
He added, "70 billion dinars from the funds of the former prime minister's office, turned into service and engineering effort that reached forgotten residential areas, and we have a special vision in the 2023 budget related to financial allocations for the service effort," stressing , "The government began its service effort with lagging projects, and a mechanism was taken to accelerate building 9 hospitals in Baghdad, and the time limit for completing the projects is one year.
He continued, "We organized the process of distributing emergency food security funds and directing them to infrastructure projects in the governorates, and we directed the governorates to distribute security food allocations according to the government's vision," stressing, "We found broken files related to Unemployment and job creation, and we started with the lecturers' file because they have a legal basis for confirmation." And we ended the problems of lecturers and contracts in all ministries.
He pointed out that "we stopped appointments and contracts because it is an economically unfeasible policy, and we allocated 500 billion dinars in the 2023 budget for the Small Projects Lending Fund," explaining that "recovering money was a priority in the anti-corruption process." While not leaving legal accountability, we adopted mechanisms that organized the process of recovering stolen funds.” Whether it was before or after 2003, there are no red lines in combating corruption."
And he stated, "We redeployed the security services according to the government program, and there are 3 governorates whose police directors received their security files after the army left them," stressing, "We are following up the level of service provision in hospitals, and we are working to rehabilitate (10) hospitals, as happened with Kadhimiya Hospital.”
And he went on to say, We are dealing with a concept called (multidimensional poverty) through food, health and other services, and obtaining a housing unit is the most important thing that will be achieved for those who are included among the poor. We have also allocated a financial subsidy for the children of the poor in order to complete their studies," adding, "We are proud to contribute to a championship file."
He pointed out that "the path of international relations adopted productive diplomacy within 100 days of the government's life, and our visits to countries were planned and had goals," stressing, "We prepared the equipment for the electricity file during the summer of 2023, and we provided all requirements as requested by the Minister of Electricity.”
He pointed out that "all state files are covered by work, not just the five priorities," noting that "economic reform was included in the priorities due to the shock caused by the ill-conceived change in the exchange rate in 2021, because the harm of the high exchange rate became compounded to citizens after the rise in food prices.”
He explained, "The previous government did not take measures to protect the citizen from the effects of changing the exchange rate, which affected even middle-income people, and because of it all economic facilities stopped," stressing, "We were surprised at the first month that there were obligatory obligations related to the dollar sale mechanism agreed upon two years ago between The government and the central bank with the US Federal Reserve.
And he pointed out that "we took quick measures regarding the issue of the currency sale window, but it needs time," noting that "
And he explained, “The delay in the general budget is because of this crisis and its solutions, and we will restore the numbers placed in the budget, and there is an impact on the percentage deficit in light of the price difference for the exchange of the dollar, and the state bears the damage, not the citizen, and the negative effects of any decision borne by the state," noting that "the budget will be a mirror. It reflects the government program and contains important steps towards development and urgent projects that the citizen needs.”
And he indicated, "The Council of Ministers took an important decision in the field of natural gas investment and associated gas, and approved the recommendation of the Economic Energy Council to sign contracts for the licensing round (the fifth round) for the border plots and fields as a final signature and to activate them after a long period of time has passed since their referral," noting that "
He pointed out that "one of the companies operating in the project can provide a quarter of the amount of imported gas within 15 months, and our goal is to secure and cover all the amount of imported gas within 3 years, and the imported gas costs up to 10 trillion dinars annually in the budget, after three years the project will provide these amounts, and it will be transferred to health, education and housing, within the framework of economic reform," stressing," We will soon announce the sixth round , which will target patches and natural gas fields, for the first time in Iraq.”
And he continued, "Iraq must enter the gas market and be a country that exports and supplies all its needs, and it is a gain on all political, economic and security levels," noting that "the second important decision is the Nibras petrochemical project." , which is one of our commitments in the government program.”
He explained, "The project has also been suspended since 2015, and it is considered one of the strategic projects in the region, and the third project in the Middle East, and the Ministry of Industry has begun to contract with an international consulting company within Two to four months to move to the next step," stressing that "this project would operate most of our factories in the private sector, and instead of importing granules from neighboring countries, we will produce and export.[/size]
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