A plan to convert the presidential palaces in Basra into public parks

 
Basra –INA
 
The General Secretariat of the Cabinet announced Saturday, conducting an inventory of 31 presidential palaces in Basra province.
 
The Director of the Presidential Palaces Department at the General Secretariat of the cabinet, Muhammad Zamil Saeed Al-Saadi, said that "The ownership of the presidential palaces remains fixed assets of the Ministry of Finance and cannot be transferred to any governmental or local authority."
 
"According to the instructions and official approvals, the government departments occupying these palaces have the right to dispose of through allotment exclusively for the purposes of maintenance and development of the constructed construction," noting that "the Ministry of Agriculture, in coordination with Basra Governorate and the United Nations Organization, intends to revive the green areas and rehabilitate the lakes that lie within the belt of (Al-Baradi’yah) palaces overlooking the waters of Shatt Al-Arab, to be the largest public park in the governorate, and after defining the areas and the urban degree and identifying the occupants in the areas (Al-Baradi’yah and Al-Kazzara) located in the center of the governorate,” Al-Saadi added.
 
Al-Saadi explained that "The team formed to conduct the plan will move to another governorate within a special schedule that has been prepared in advance in order to complete the unified database of all presidential palaces across the country according to the specific timings for the completion of the census and detection project."