Iraq presents a vision for the 2030 development plan with the Belt Initiative

Beijing-INA

The advisor of the Iraqi embassy in the People's Republic of China, Dr. Baher Mardan, presented a vision for the 2030 development plan with the Belt Initiative.

The reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA) stated that "Mardan presented, in his speech in which he represented Iraq before the Chinese Forum in its third session, Iraq's future plans in sustainable development, expressing" through his paper on the Global Development Initiative and the National Development Plan in Iraq for 2022 about the possibility of the Iraqi government and its specialized institutions concerned with national development and its plans towards the sustainable development journey and Iraq’s vision for 2030 by adopting a program based on development employment and a joint bilateral program with the Belt Initiative and the Global Development Initiative in light of China’s successful development experiences that deserve to be emulated. 

The Iraqi embassy advisor added that "the Iraqi government seeks to strengthen partnership with the European Union, friendly countries and agencies of the United Nations development offices to accelerate the pace of sustainable development plans in Iraq, which represent part of the United Nations agenda," stressing that "the Iraqi government worked to prepare national development plans with the aim of reducing among those crises and their repercussions and the challenges facing them that represent brakes on the way, including the threats of terrorist gangs of ISIS, as well as the challenge of unemployment and poverty with the challenge of the environment and problems of desertification and the challenge of the Corona pandemic and the file of anti-corruption. 

He stressed "the need to refer to the unique Chinese experience in combating poverty, which affects more than 100 million people," noting that "the initial agreement between the Chinese International Center for Poverty Control in China and the Iraqi Ministry of Planning in the past period was the beginning of steps for joint developmental employment and cooperation in the development of knowledge expertise." .