Al-Ghazi: The government is determined to activate the public and private industrial sectors

Baghdad - INA

The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, Hamid Naim Al-Ghazi, affirmed the Iraqi government's intention to activate and revitalize the public and private industrial sectors.

A statement issued by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), said that "Al-Ghazi chaired the work of the consultative meeting concerned with addressing the obstacles to the allocation of land for industrial cities and stressed that the government is determined to activate and revitalize the public and private industrial sectors by overcoming all obstacles for investment companies, and simplifying All procedures related to the establishment of industrial cities in all governorates.

Al-Ghazi stressed, according to the statement, "the need to overcome the obstacles facing developers and industrial investors, and to bypass bureaucracy and red tape, in order to promote the industrial sector, which will contribute to spinning the wheel of production and self-sufficiency, as well as employing local labor."

The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers directed to assign employees from each institution concerned with the matter, to conduct immediate follow-ups and resolve outstanding issues, and to implement what was stated in the decisions of the Council of Ministers and the recommendations issued by the committee in question to give investment companies real opportunities, and the possibility of inventorying and identifying undeveloped lands.