PM addresses the water and energy issues in his visit to KSA and Iran

Baghdad - INA

During the council's session today, Tuesday, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi discussed the water and energy files and his visits to Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The Prime Minister’s media office published the most important thing he spoke at the session in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), and conveyed his confirmation that “this government came in exceptional circumstances, and it worked and is still working in exceptional circumstances, and despite all these challenges it has succeeded in overcoming many From the difficulties, and the challenges were not easy, and the slogan of the government from the first day was that it is a government of words and deeds.”
He added, "We focused on the practical aspect of citizens' needs. We succeeded in some of them, while others need more time to address them."
Speaking about the agreement with China, he continued, a while ago we laid the foundation stone for a project to build 1,000 schools in all governorates of Iraq, which is the first meal within the Iraqi-Chinese framework agreement.
He pointed out that "this agreement got a great deal of confusion by some parties that tried to promote the government's lack of seriousness in implementing the agreement or not wanting to implement it, and the government is the one who implemented the agreement, and we started with a project of one thousand schools out of a total of 8000 schools in all governorates, and in the form of stages.".
He added, "Unfortunately, we sometimes hear campaigns in some media and social media platforms aimed at breaking the will of the government's work, and our response is silence. We do not want to engage in political rivalries for the sake of Iraq and Iraqis, and we focus on work to move towards the future."
He pointed out, "The House of Representatives voted on the emergency food security support law, and we must work to implement it with full force in order to serve the people, and I would like to remind that it is not a budget, but rather that we are going through an exceptional circumstance, and we, as a caretaker government, have no right to enact laws, so we resorted to the Food Security Law, which requires us to work very hard to implement it for the benefit of the Iraqis.”
Regarding the political file, Al- Kadhimi stressed, "We need all political parties to cooperate with us to implement the Food Security Law, with our need for a supervisory role as well, which must take place within the public interest, and not for pressure or personal purposes, or within agendas to weaken the government."
He pointed out that "the government is working at the end of its session, and we expect the political parties to work with full force to form a government that represents the aspirations of the Iraqi people, so that it can present a vision to address these challenges. I remind the political elites of the importance of expediting the formation of a government that does its duty, and at the same time we will work for the last minute to follow up on all the details.”
He continued, "We have commitments that we must implement and continue with, and despite the many internal challenges, we have succeeded in the policy of external balance, and this was a major goal from the first moment in working to restore our relations with neighboring countries and friendly countries and with our brothers."
He stressed, "Praise be to God, we put Iraq's interest in the first place, and this balance stems from the interest of Iraq and the Iraqi people, and we will continue with this policy, and we will not go to any axis at the expense of another axis, and we put an equal distance with everyone in order to bring to Iraq investments and support, in order to compensate for what has passed." In the past, failures, frustrations and absurd wars left their repercussions on the Iraqi people, and what is required is to rebuild our relations on the basis of the Iraqi interest and on the basis of good faith with all partners. As for the policy of fear, isolation and mistrust with others, it is not in our policy.
The Prime Minister said, according to the statement: "We think well of everyone until we reconcile with ourselves and others, and liberate us from the absurd policies that took Iraq in the past to semi-isolationist or escalatory policies with neighboring countries, and this will be part of the past."
On his foreign tour, the Prime Minister explained, "On my recent visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was very good, in which we discussed common issues, Saudi investments in Iraq and future prospects, and we talked about the electrical connection and many projects that Iraqis benefit from, and the importance of that The region will be stable and calm, and Iraq will play its role in taming the atmosphere for the benefit of Iraq and the region."
He explained, "We talked about the global challenges due to the war in Ukraine and its repercussions on food security, and how to cooperate in order to provide the needs of our peoples to provide this security and the Brotherhood in Iran expressed their willingness to send the Minister of Energy to Baghdad to talk about the issue of water and electric power and solve all problems.
Al- Kadhimi added, "We need to work hard to overcome the challenges that the region is going through, affecting everyone and Iraq in the first place, and in particular the issue of climate changes, and for this I ask the competent ministers to pay attention to this aspect regarding water and climatic changes that are reflected in agriculture and the lives of citizens, and we must remember that these relations and this balance prove to the world and to the Iraqis that Iraq has a great depth in history, and its role and location are very important in helping to build relationships that serve the interest of our people.
He stressed that "Iraq is working and seeking to be part of the region and its stability, and that we cooperate with all countries in order to avoid the repercussions of the war in Ukraine in terms of food and energy security, and our work will continue until the last moment of the life of this government, until the formation of a new government, we must work." day and night to overcome all obstacles and challenges.