Wednesday, May 9, 2012Basra: World Bank to discuss with the local government a mechanism to support service projects
Examined the Director of the World Bank in Baghdad, Mary Helen with the local government in the province of Basra Multi create a strategic partnership with the province.
Said Helen told the News} {Euphrates on Wednesday he was "touched on the support mechanism for electricity projects, including support Hartha electrical station," in addition to the "construction of a road of Umm Qasr to Zubair."
She added that "discussions were held on the subject of the extractive industries like oil and water and other things of interest to most areas of Basra."
For his part, Vice Chairman of the provincial council in Basra on the mass of the citizen Ahmed Chijeel Sulaiti during a meeting with World Bank Director Mary Helen that there are important projects in the province up to {250} million dollars, "asserting that" among those rehabilitation projects Hartha power station. "
He pointed out that "the project to prepare the station Hartha his kind of problems led to the failure to pay amounts as the rehabilitation of the project was not spent only about 6% percent of the amounts allocated for the project."
He stressed that "the dialogue with the Director of the World Bank to ensure the removal of obstacles and problems to continue because the purpose of {2014}, referring to the meeting included discussion on the topics - Capacity-building projects related to the initiative of transparency in extractive industries. "Over 42 m
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