Baghdad – IA – Hassan Al-Fawaz
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning, Muhammad Ali Tamim, confirmed today, Tuesday, the existence of government efforts for the private sector to assume leadership of development in Iraq, while indicating that the government is determined to provide the best conditions for the work of the private sector.
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Tamim said, in his speech during the first meeting of the General Authority of the Board of Directors of the Private Sector in Iraq, attended by the correspondent of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “This meeting represents the beginning of the work and the basic lines to move strongly on the path to developing the private sector according to a real, sound vision based on Serious participation in the development process.”
He added, “We seek for the private sector to lead development in Iraq, and we are fully confident that this sector has great potential that can move forward towards achieving partnership,” noting that “the private sector has faced many difficulties and obstacles that have kept it away in different periods of time.” He strayed from the right paths, which created a state of dispersion and weakened development capabilities, but all of that did not distance him from his role and his commitment to contributing to building the nation.”
He pointed out, “The path to building and developing the private sector is not an easy matter. There are difficult challenges that we must overcome to achieve what we aspire to.”
He explained, “The government has provided great support to the private sector, and is determined to provide the best conditions for its work, so the private sector must benefit from the stable environment that Iraq is witnessing.”
He continued by saying: “The Ministry of Planning has made great efforts over many months, in order to reach this day, and those efforts have been crowned with many successes, represented by the approval of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani to assume the presidency of the Permanent Council for the Development of the Private Sector, and this is the matter.” “In itself, it represents a high value, additional strength, and support for the development of the private sector.”
He continued, “The Ministry was also able to choose the General Assembly of the Council, which will hold its first meeting today, and there was great concern for there to be real representation of all economic and development activities falling under the private sector, and taking into account the representation of the governorates and components without forgetting the representation of women and youth, in addition to To the participation of an elite group of experts, academics and representatives of entrepreneurship.”
Tamim called for “making the utmost efforts to select the permanent council, whose goal will be to support and develop the private sector, and the main factor in finding solutions and treatments that can face the private sector in all fields.”
