Iraq donates 300,000 dollars to support Syrian refugees

by **Ponee** Sat Apr 16, 2016 7:40 am

Direction Press / Baghdad

Iraq donated 300,000 dollars to support Syrian refugees.

A statement by the Ministry of Finance received "direction Press" a copy of it, that Iraq "posted on Saturday, Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari at the International Conference which was held at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, headed by the Secretary General of the United Nations and World Bank President and Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank."

The statement pointed out that "the conference was attended by donor countries and international and regional organizations and agencies in order to ways of activating the joint initiative of the financial funding for the countries affected by the conflict in Syria and refugees walls, and made a number of donor countries pledges to contribute to the initiative, especially Japan, France, Germany, Britain, the European Union and Canada."

During the International Conference according to the statement "get money from donor countries increased by $ 141 million in aid directly, billion dollar soft loans and 500 million financial guarantees to help countries affected by the Syrian conflict, which is hosting Syrian refugees."

The Minister of Finance as one of the key speakers at the conference pointed to the security, economic and humanitarian challenges facing Iraq, as well as activating welcomed the initiative and the inclusion of Iraq this initiative and provide assistance to the two walls of refugees at about 300,000 dollars in the Kurdistan region. "

The Minister for Finance side meetings with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and a number of finance ministers at the conference. The sa http://aletejahtv.org/index.php/permalink/107665.html