Washington confirms cut aid to Baghdad and its focus on the development of its oil sector
Washington confirms cut aid to Baghdad and its focus on the development of its oil sector
24.9.2013 17:08
Range Press / Basra
Revealed the United States, on Tuesday, for reducing their aid material to Iraq because of the reduced budget, indicating that it will focus during the next term to support the oil sector and its development, especially in Basra, while called to harness the wealth of the province to implement the services and construction and beyond “obstacle bureaucratic high hampered attract investors Foreigners, “student union business to provide the necessary facilities to encourage foreign investors to work in the province.
This came during a press conference held by the American Consul General in Basra, today, in the hall of the Union of Iraqi businessmen, in the city, marking the end of his tenure, and attended (Presse term).
He said the outgoing U.S. Consul, Bill Krant, “The coming days will witness directly the new U.S. Consul General in the province, Matthews Mtman”, noting that “Mtman through his work will focus on the support of the oil sector in Basra and development.”
And Krant added, that “the U.S. government is continuing its fixed policy towards Iraq, regardless of the people who carry them out”, calling for the need to “harness the wealth preservation for the implementation of large projects and reconstruction services and overcome bureaucratic obstacle that led to the high blocking attract foreign investors to it.”
The outgoing U.S. Consul, that “the U.S. spending in Iraq will fall back to the reasons for reducing the budget,” adding, “but in return Iraq’s resources has seen a rise being able to afford the decline of U.S. aid.”
In contrast, Deputy Prime Businessmen Union in Basra, Abdul-Sahib Saleh, in an interview to (range Press), on the sidelines of the conference, said that “the relationship between Iraq and the United States must be based on the economic interests of civilization”, calling for “employment relationship to attract major U.S. and international companies to Basra. ”
Saleh saw, that “the responsibility to protect U.S. companies and foreign companies operating in Basra were not clear,” stressing the need to “work hard to attract foreign investors and facilitate the granting of visas because so special actions in Iraq, Basra is the toughest in the world.”
It is noteworthy that Bill Krant, began his mission in Basra, since the year 2010, one of the American diplomats who Ulloa attention to the economic aspect and development in the governorate.
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