Text of the Cabinet decisions on Sunday

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[size=52]Text of the Cabinet decisions on Sunday[/size]

[size=45]On Sunday, the Iraqi government issued a series of service, economic and urban decisions.[/size]
[size=45]The media office of the Prime Minister's Office said, "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chaired the thirty-fourth regular session of the Council of Ministers, during which the latest developments in the country were discussed, and a number of economic and service issues were discussed, in addition to considering the topics on the agenda and taking the necessary decisions regarding them."[/size]
[size=45]As part of the government’s efforts to organize the millions of visits to religious shrines and provide their requirements, through the Permanent Supreme Committee, the Council of Ministers approved the following:[/size]
[size=45]1. The Prime Minister’s Office shall assign ministries, governorates and other relevant entities to implement the components of the Million Visits Project, including the procedures for advertising, referral, contracting and supervision of the implementation of the work, according to each case (component) directed by the Prime Minister, and based on the availability of allocation and financial liquidity.[/size]
[size=45]2. The procedures for auditing the dues of the companies implementing the components of the Million Visits Project shall be the tasks of the sectoral bodies of the ministries, governorates and other relevant bodies, and disbursement, allocation and funding requests shall be within the powers of the Prime Minister’s Office in coordination with the Ministries of Planning and Finance.[/size]
[size=45]3. The Supreme Committee for Million-Person Visits shall coordinate with the ministries, governorates and other relevant authorities to select projects and complete the requirements for including the components of the Million-Person Visit Project with the Ministry of Planning. The authorities preparing these components shall bear the legal, accounting and technical responsibility in terms of preparing plans, designs, specifications and prices according to the nature of the work.[/size]
[size=45]4. The Supreme Committee for Million Visits will follow up on the project components during the announcement, referral, contracting and implementation phase.[/size]
[size=45]Within the framework of the government’s vision for economic reform and activating the investment and development movement in the country, the Council approved the national strategy for bank lending prepared by the Central Bank of Iraq, including the recommendations and programs included therein.[/size]
[size=45]According to the statement, the strategy aims to “stimulate the growth of the Iraqi private sector by improving the business environment, attracting local and foreign investors, and increasing credit granted to it from the non-oil GDP by 2029, in addition to increasing credit to small projects from the non-oil GDP, and financing approximately 100,000 projects.”[/size]
[size=45]The Council of Ministers voted that the customs duty for containers larger than 40 feet would be 4 million dinars.[/size]
[size=45]In order to proceed and expedite the implementation of urgent service projects and complete infrastructure projects, it was approved to exempt the Ministries of Construction, Housing, Municipalities, Public Works, Health, Higher Education and Scientific Research from the contracting methods stipulated in the Instructions for Implementing Government Contracts (2 of 2014) to implement infrastructure projects and establish teaching hospitals based on solid and specialized companies.[/size]
[size=45]In order to provide service and entertainment facilities for the people of the capital, Baghdad, the Council approved the referral of the project to transform the land of Al-Rashid Camp, east of Baghdad, into sustainable and tourist forest areas, according to high specifications that are compatible with the environment, and to invest the area designated for entertainment activity only, and to grant the investor an investment license to establish a residential complex of (12) thousand housing units, instead of the camp land, in the districts of Al-Dahna, Hekteria and Shaar, and 19 Ghazaliya, and to cancel all previous allocations.[/size]
[size=45]On the service side of the capital as well, it was approved that the Ministry of Finance allocate an amount of (21,980,040,000 dinars) from the emergency reserve to the Baghdad Municipality, regarding the direct implementation works of the Karkh/Al-Buaitha sewage treatment project, based on the provisions of the Federal General Budget Law (13 of 2023).[/size]
[size=45]As part of the ongoing preparations to conduct the general population census next November, the Council approved the special requirements to equip the Kurdistan Region of Iraq data center with the necessary devices, equipment, licenses and servers to transfer the general population census data in the region’s governorates from and to the main center in Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]In the process of completing stalled projects in all sectors, the following was approved:[/size]
[size=45]-1 Promoting the required spare parts order and increasing the reserve amount for the project (implementing the infrastructure for (water, electricity, and communications) works with the first phase of (municipality and sewage) works for the allocation of 2375/ which is located behind (Yassin Kharbit/ allocation of the martyrs of the crowd), and adjacent to allocation 2373, and increasing the total cost of the main project in Basra Governorate.[/size]
[size=45]-2 Increase the reserve amount and the total cost of the project (construction of the second Qurna Bridge).[/size]
[size=45]-3 Increasing the reserve amount for the contracting company (development works of District 627 - University District, paving + water within the Mansour Municipality sector), and increasing the total cost of the project (paving main roads and residential shops) within which the contracting company falls.[/size]
[size=45]The Council of Ministers also approved the identification of the creditor companies concerned with the procedures for seizing and selling Iraqi real estate in France and the size of their debt, to avoid the processes of seizing and selling real estate in France.[/size]
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