Six countries that participated in the Kuwait conference told Iraq not to honor its commitments because of corruption
Six countries that participated in the Kuwait conference told Iraq not to honor its commitments because of corruption
2019/10/21 14:46
[Baghdad-Where]
revealed a government official, that the six countries that participated in the Kuwait conference told Iraq not to abide by its commitments, noting that those countries attributed the reason to the widespread corruption and the lack of a clear road map to spend money on reconstruction projects.
The official said in a press statement that “Iraq needs according to government reports, between 80 and 90 billion dollars, for the reconstruction of 180 cities and the judiciary, town and district distributed over the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh, Diyala, Salah al-Din, Kirkuk, the belt of Baghdad and northern Babil, cities swept by ISIS Northern and western Iraq in mid-2014 and was liberated in 2017, “indicating that” these regions account for 49 per cent of the total area of the country. ”
In February 2018, Kuwait sponsored an international conference for the reconstruction and development of Iraq, with the participation of more than 40 countries and hundreds of foreign companies in various sectors, while the Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, at the time, that international pledges At the conference amounted to 30 billion.
The official added that “these pledges did not find their way to activate,” pointing out that “six Arab and foreign countries have informed Iraq that corruption in Iraq and the failure of the government to provide a clear roadmap for how to spend money on reconstruction projects, which prompted them to hesitate to fulfill their pledges.”
He stressed that “reconstruction efforts are currently based on contributions from the United Nations and local and other efforts of the federal government, and focuses on the cleaning and removal of debris and the restoration of roads, but there are more than 200 thousand destroyed housing units and dozens of hospitals and health centers and hundreds of schools out of service, and about 10,000 Kilometers of roads and bridges need reconstruction. ”
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