Thursday, July 19, 2012United States and Iraq sign agreement for administrative reform in Iraq
Signed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Wednesday, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Memorandum of Understanding with the Office of the Prime Minister, draw the outline of the U.S. support for Iraqi efforts to reduce administrative obstacles in the Iraqi private sector, in line with the strategic framework agreement.
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding Director United States Agency for International Development in Iraq Alex decay, and the Director of Office of the Prime Minister Dr. Ahmad Hamid.
The spokesman said a U.S. embassy official in Baghdad, said in a statement that the signing of this memorandum allows the agency to begin officially participating in the project management and administrative reform in Iraq (insistence), who will review and remove unnecessary procedures that hinder business and private investment.
He will work on the project totals for the problem of Iraqi government officials and representatives from the private sector to issue recommendations to simplify the procedures for opening new projects and to obtain building permits and to facilitate trade with neighboring countries and the world.
The official spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, that the recommendations will help to introduce a significant improvement on the Iraqi private sector in the classification of the country in the World Bank report on the establishment of projects, which will support efforts to expand the scope of investment in the economic sector in Iraq, and would send the implementation of these reforms, a clear to the international business that Iraq is laying the foundations of a new economic rapidly.
The project "insistence" and one of a series of projects supported by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad as part of the strategic framework agreement to support the Iraqi government's efforts towards improving the private sector.
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