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Kurdistan Region Planning Minister, World Bank official discuss WB’s projects in Kurdistan Region

Added by Ahmed Hussein on May 7, 2013.











Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Minister of Planning of Kurdistan Regional
Government discussed on Tuesday with the World Bank’s chief in Iraq,
Maria Helen Pringle, and her accompanying delegation, the projects and
activities of the World Bank in Kurdistan Region.

A statement by KRG cited on Tuesday “The meeting discussed the World
Bank’s activities and projects in Kurdistan Region which are implemented
in collaboration with Planning Ministry especially the programme of
providing advisory services and the technical support by the World Bank
to Kurdistan’s institutions in various fields to make use of the
foreign expertise.”

“The programme of providing advisory services comes within the framework of
the agreement concluded between the Kurdistan Region Planning Ministry
and the WB in field of providing the technical support,” the statement
added.

“On other hand, the Minister of Planning received another delegation from
the WB headed by Caroline Winter, the chief of the Social Programmes in
Middle East and North Africa where he discussed with her the WB’s
projects for the society which is considered to be one of the projects
that provide consultative services,” the statement pointed out.

“For her part, Winter confirmed that “Kurdistan Region achieved a success in
field of implementing such projects and the Region represents a
successful model in the region in terms of the society and government
departments’ participation in all respects,” the statement concluded.




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