MOI: joint plans to rehabilitate factories

Baghdad - INA

The Ministry of Industry and Minerals revealed plans with the private sector to rehabilitate factories and establish new projects, while indicating that the private sector's invitation to partnership comes within the government's directions to open up to all countries of the world .

The ministry's spokesman, Mortada Al-Safi, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The statement attributed to the Minister of Industry and Minerals, Manhal Aziz Khabbaz, regarding inviting Syrian businessmen to operate 57 thousand factories stopped in Iraq, is inaccurate," noting that "the head of the Iraqi Federation of Industries was among the Members of the Iraqi delegation accompanying the Minister of Industry, and in turn gave a comprehensive explanation of the reality of the private sector in Iraq, and the preparation of laboratories and private sector projects operating and suspended.

He added, "The Minister of Industry, since assuming the duties of the ministry, has worked to support the private industrial sector, and he always repeats in all his statements that he is a minister of industry in Iraq in all its public, private and mixed sectors," stressing that "the Minister of Industry visited a number of private sector companies and laboratories to see their reality.".

He explained that "many times, the Minister of Industry, Manhal Aziz Khabbaz, confirmed, and we mentioned in many statements and news, the direction and plans of the ministry, in cooperation with the Iraqi private sector, and Iraqi businessmen, to rehabilitate factories, add new lines or establish new projects and factories."

He stressed that "there are partnership contracts concluded with Iraqi private sector companies in several areas."