26/06/2012
Government seeks to achieve economic reform
Shaways: We look forward to broad cooperation with Moscow
BAGHDAD - Al Sabah
Announced the government's pursuit of rapid economic reform in the country within its plans for the advancement of all sectors during the next term. This comes at a time when the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Rose Nuri Shaways work to promote cooperation in various fields with Russia.
Shaways said in a speech Iraq Bmenendy St. Petersburg International Economic - the sixteenth session: "We are happy to participate in the meeting of Petersburg, where he will meet senior policy makers, representatives of companies and business people, investors and representatives of international organizations and financial institutions.
We look at this forum as an opportunity for a good definition of Russian companies and Russian businessmen, companies and investors from all countries, large investment opportunities in Iraq, a large and promising, and we look forward to diversify the participation of all in the reconstruction of the country, like Iraq, rich in natural and its potential physical and human energies, and the prospects for its economy wide riser.
"He continued:" Iraq looks to Russia as a pivotal state, and major economic force in our region particular, and at the international level in general, and our country was and is still eager to establish better political relations, economic, cultural and scientific with it, especially that there are many things that characterize the relationship between our two countries being the largest energy-producing countries, especially oil and gas.
addition to the two countries tend to draw the level of economic strategies of the state towards the liberalization of the economy from domination fist central bureaucracy, and turn it into a free economy is working mechanisms of the market economy is efficient, dynamic and seeks to integrate into the global economy , and the order in which a decent life for citizens.
"He looked Shaways Iraq to benefit from the Russian experience that preceded us, in the field of investment and the privatization of the public sector that took place and take place in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as long as the general trend in Iraq is moving towards the restructuring of companies and state institutions and economic reform, and broad support for the local private sector and foreign, and to create a real partnership between the public and private sectors.
He pointed out "that Iraq sought to work on closer economic and trade cooperation, scientific and technical between the two countries .. We are interested in further developing the idea of international gathering, which was declared established with Qatar and some other countries of the founding of a gas cartel similar to OPEC. "The history of economic and trade relations and joint cooperation between Iraq and the European Union Soviet and successor of the Russian Federation extends to more than half a century, since this represents the diversified cooperation in the support given to Iraq in the construction of infrastructure in the fields of electricity and the oil industry, agriculture, dams, reservoirs, and other light industries, as well as exchange trade between the two countries.
And increased Shaways said: "There are vast opportunities for cooperation in these areas, and benefit from the technological and technical capabilities of the vast Russian companies in the public and private investors and the Russians in the construction and reconstruction of these structures and their advancement." And stressed the keenness of the government to reactivate the work (the Iraqi - Russian joint trade and economic cooperation, scientific and technical) that was established in the signing of the August 5, 1993, and we look forward to the coordination and cooperation for the success of the meetings of its fifty-sixth in the fourth quarter of this year 2012.
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