BAGHDAD / Nasir Ali
Iraqi lawmakers have questioned and experts in the country's ability to implement a strategic economic plans implementation takes less than two decades, Aazin the reasons for the lack of political awareness, which will be in the way of continuing to implement the plan, if the current government changed.
Iraq announced the launch of the National Strategic Plan for Integrated Energy (2013 -2030) will hopefully provide tens of thousands of jobs, and building ports to raise the country's export capacity to six million barrels of oil per day. Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani "We actually implementing stages of the national plan of the national strategy and integrated according to a schedule from 2013 to 2030 ... and will turn Iraq in the next twenty years of dependence on oil to rely on the economy to raise the standard of living of citizens." He added: "We can not rely solely on the production and export of oil must build an integrated plan for manufacturing instead of importing these products," announced "a giant sign contracts and memoranda of understanding with ten insurance companies to 15 thousand MW electricity."
He called on ministries to "the implementation of the plan, both within its jurisdiction and the timing," and pointed out that it would make the Iraqi industry sophisticated global level for the chemical industry, "and that" there are contracts for the construction of new refineries and companies were invited "to submit bids.
He announced that "Iraq also signed a contract to establish a new company for gas and committed the oil companies not to burn gas lieutenant to extract the oil, but investment," and pointed out that "Iraq has a plan to build new pipelines and construction of ports of export to be Iraqi ports able to export six million barrels of oil a day year next year. "
Shahristani said that "the four licensing rounds conducted by the Iraq earlier produced 12 oil contracts," asserting that "the fifth round of licenses to be held before the end of the year."
In this area, the representative of the "World Bank" in Iraq, Simon Stolb, during a party the launch of the National Strategic Plan of integrated energy to "The World Bank will support Iraq to carry out this strategy, which is ready to assist technically and financially."
And saw oil expert government, Hamza Jeweler, on the sidelines of the ceremony in a statement to "life," that the three ministries "began preparing for this strategy since mid-2011, the oil and electricity industry, but its implementation and success require the support of other ministries, because the factors of success does not lie masterly in execution only, but what we need most is to increase political awareness. "
He continued: "We have a fear of the possibility of blasting carried out the plan Once the government changed, and this is what needs to make efforts to reach the degree of awareness attained advanced countries find their plans going with those who would not assume governments." He pointed out that "the political and security factors closely related to the implementation of the plan," but also bet on "securing 10 million jobs and this alone is enough to end three of the biggest problems of Iraq, unemployment, poverty and terrorism."
Committee member questioned's Nora Albjara economic success of the implementation of the plan, she said, "Iraq has failed to implement a medium-term plans, especially five-year plans, and it would be difficult to walk plans last 17 years." It continued: "Everyone hopes to reduce dependence on oil as an orphan for the sustainability of the economy of Iraq, and better implementation plans (developed in the Gulf states) and of the exploitation of oil for the development of other resources, especially investment, despite the fact that opportunities in Iraq better for being an industrialized country and agriculturally, but segments semi- dead and causes returns to lack of experience "in the continuity and development.
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