The Minister of Planning reassures the employees ... and announces: The benefit of raising the dollar is more than its harm

Time: 05/07/2021 1:56:43
 
{Economist: Al Furat News} The Minister of Planning, Khaled Battal Al-Najm, assured employees that they would secure their salaries by the end of this year.

Al-Najm said in a televised statement: "The government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi came to solve a problem in three files: {the elections - reforming the economy and facing the pandemic - and the security file}, indicating that" the government provided all the requirements of the electoral process. "

He emphasized, "Salaries are fully secured for this year, and we have succeeded in restoring the true role of the Ministry of Planning, which is to draw sound economic policy for the country."

He pointed out, "We have about 2000 suspended projects out of 6 thousand projects, and the coming period will witness the return of many of the stalled projects to work."

Al-Najm pointed out that "the 4 trillion dinars in regional development allocations will be allocated to the completion of ongoing projects, and this is a great success for the Ministry of Planning," stressing that "the stalled projects are costing us great damage."

The Minister of Planning said, "The change of the exchange rate of the dollar represents a response to the economic reality, and economic competition requires such a measure," adding, "The economic benefit of changing the exchange rate is more than its harm."

"Within two years, we will overcome the crisis, and we will have a national product that is able to compete with the importer," he said.

Al-Najm explained that "the government dealt wisely with the security file," stressing that "the stability of the situation in Iraq under complex circumstances represents an important success for the government and running the economic rudder in light of a complex crisis is a success for the government."

He believed that "the government succeeded in confronting the pandemic by exceeding expectations," noting that "we did not find anything condemning the Minister of Health in the accident (fire) of Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, and the Ministerial Committee did justice to the minister."

Ammar Al-Masoudi

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