Baghdad will host tomorrow the summit of the Quadripartite Council for the Development Path.
Baghdad will host tomorrow the summit of the Quadripartite Council for the Development Path.
09/14/2025
The Quadripartite Council Summit for the Development Road Project will be held in Baghdad tomorrow, Monday, with the participation of technical committees emanating from the project’s organizational structure.
The Director of the Media Office of the Ministry of Transport, Maitham Al-Safi, stated to Al-Sabah that the summit, which will be attended by the Minister of Transport, Razzaq Al-Saadawi, will discuss the steps to initiate the project, in preparation for holding the ministerial meeting before the end of this year, with the attendance of the transport ministers of the member states (Türkiye, Qatar, and the UAE), in addition to Iraq.
Al-Safi pointed out that the Ministry of Transport is working across all its sectors to prepare an integrated vision for the project, in coordination with international consulting firms, including BTP, which specializes in technical works, and Oliver Wyman, which is responsible for the project’s economic policy.
He explained that the summit was preceded by bilateral meetings with the Turkish side to discuss the rates of completion and designs, in addition to reviewing the latest developments presented by Oliver Wyman regarding the economic model, the administrative structure for project governance and mechanisms.
Implementation.
Al-Safi revealed that the completion rate of the designs and soil tests for the railway line has reached (82%), while the completion rate of the (1190) km long land road from Al-Faw Port to Fishkhabur has reached (66%). He explained that work is underway to identify the lands included in the expropriation to expedite implementation, in addition to coordination with local governments to facilitate the work of the committees for resolving conflicts and expropriation.
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