Al-Kadhimi: Starting to implement the economic reform plan

INA – Baghdad
 
Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi confirmed the start of implementing the administrative and executive mechanisms of the economic reform plan.
 
"Since we launched the reform white paper to address the rampant corruption in the country, we are working to create an appropriate atmosphere for its application," said the Prime Minister during a meeting of the Higher Committee for Reform that he chaired as it came according to a statement by his media office, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
Al-Kadhimi noted that "today's meeting is to announce the start of implementing the administrative and executive mechanisms for the economic reform plan within the white paper,"
 
"We strongly aspire to restore the country's economy after the situation reached very low levels as a result of rampant corruption," he stressed, adding that "this plan would rebuild the Iraqi economy in a proper manner, achieving sustainable development for the country,"
 
He continued, "The reform plan will provide a solution to the chronic economic management crisis, which is represented by complete dependence on oil, and the failure to diversify sources of income,"
 
“We want to prove to the Iraqis that we are serious about reform. Therefore, the economic management plan was not short-term, nor was it immediate, but rather aimed at an integrated reform until it is completed within 5 years,” he explaind.
 
Al-Kadhimi stressed that "the damage to the Iraqi economy is very great, and for this reason it is impossible to implement the reform plan in a short time, and whoever promises to do so is delusional,"
 
He pointed out that "the goal is to advance the Iraqi state, not the current government. Governments go and the state remains, and for this we want with all our determination to restore Iraq's economic prestige,"
 
"Since we assumed the administration of the executive authority of Iraq, we have been working hard to implement reforms, in order to come out with the least losses for all of us," Al-Kadhimi went on noting that "the future of our children is more important than anything, they are the builders of Iraq, and they are the ones who will lead it, so let's leave our interests and think about our children,"