Cabinet approves five-year national development plan

Cabinet approves five-year national development plan

Posted, 2018-04-02

Cabinet approves five-year national development planBaghdad – Mawazine News
On Sunday, the Cabinet approved the Five-Year National Development Plan (2018-2022) to reduce poverty, agricultural and industrial development and reconstruction in the governorates.
“The cabinet hosted during its regular session chaired by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hosted the members of the Board of Commissioners and directors of the offices of the Independent High Electoral Commission in Baghdad and the provinces to discuss the preparations for the distribution of voter cards,” a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement received by Mawazine News.
He added that he “discussed how to prevent the sale or manipulation of cards (procedures and guarantees) and close all gaps and the needs of the Electoral Commission, the position of distribution cards, especially in the provinces of Nineveh, Anbar and Salahuddin.”
He explained that “the Council called on the competent authorities in coordination with the Electoral Commission for elections to take the necessary legal action against any person who is the process of selling and buying the electoral card or use of the person granted to him or the person to change the will of the voter or deliberately the person to vote in the name of others as they constitute crimes punishable by law For the purpose of punishing the legally sanctioned perpetrators of such crimes. ”
He pointed out that “the Cabinet approved the National Five-Year Development Plan (2018-2022), which is based on key themes (good governance, private sector, reconstruction in the provinces, alleviation of poverty). The plan focuses on the promotion of productive sectors (agriculture and industry) The rest of the sectors moved to a target economic growth rate of 7%. ”
He added that “the plan includes increasing production capacity in the crude oil sector to (6.5) million barrels per day and provide sustainable employment opportunities and reduce poverty and many other paragraphs.”

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