The Prime Minister directs to maintain the pace of security and service work

Baghdad - INA

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani directed, today, Saturday, to maintain the pace of security and service work for the Arbaeen visit for the coming hours and to closely follow up on the plans.

The Prime Minister's Media Office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chaired a meeting in the holy Karbala Governorate that included the Ministers of Interior, Health, Electricity, and Transport, the Governors of Karbala, Basra, and Wasit, the Director of the Prime Minister's Office and Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Million-Pilgrim Visits, in addition to officials of the relevant security and service formations; to follow up on the efforts related to the Arbaeen visit, which reached its peak today." 

The statement added that "al-Sudani followed up on the efforts made by various security formations and agencies, in addition to the efforts to dispatch visitors," noting that "the efforts have exceeded limits and levels over the past weeks in order to provide all support and services, whether to visitors from the governorates or those who came from outside Iraq." 

He pointed out that "the meeting discussed the great role played by local governments in the governorates that were a crossing for visitors heading to the holy Karbala, and their success in implementing their service plans." 

Al-Sudani stressed, according to the statement, "the need to discuss reports that identify negatives; with the aim of addressing them in the future and emphasizing the continuation of implementing projects related to the smooth flow of millions of visits." 

The Prime Minister directed "the need to maintain the same pace of work and enthusiasm in the security and service aspects, for the coming hours and to closely follow up on plans and focus on the reverse delegation of visitors, and provide all necessary facilities for that, until the arrival of the last visitor, and that all efforts be crowned with the success we have planned for." 

He explained that "the Arbaeen visit is witnessing a development in numbers, quality of services and needs of visitors, and it is in harmony with the citizen's entitlement within a level of respect and appreciation in the field of transportation in decent cars and providing potable water for processions, especially in difficult climatic conditions, health services and petroleum derivatives, and most importantly, providing sustainable security."