Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee meets with the Tunisian Minister of Finance

Baghdad-INA   
The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwani Atwani, confirmed today, Monday, to Tunisian Finance Minister Sihem Boughdiri the serious desire to benefit from the Tunisian experience in managing financial and monetary wealth, and its steps towards achieving sustainable development.
 
A statement by the media office of the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that "the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, and the accompanying delegation, met with the Tunisian Minister of Finance, Sihem Boughdiri, in the presence of the Chargé d'Affairs of the Iraqi Embassy in Tunisia, and the senior staff of the Tunisian Ministry of Finance, to discuss ways to enhance cooperation and joint coordination between Iraq and Tunisia, regarding the development of the financial, monetary and economic system, and in a way that achieves the aspirations of the two brotherly peoples.
 
Atwani stressed according to the statement the "serious desire to benefit from the Tunisian experience in managing financial and monetary wealth, and its steps in achieving sustainable development, especially since it has a pioneering experience in relying on non-oil revenues, in financing the state's general budget."
 
 
  "The meeting reviewed the most important challenges facing the financial and monetary sector, how to build the general budget of the two brotherly countries, ways to diversify sources of income and address the deficit, and mechanisms for expanding the tax base and estimating revenues", referring to "the Iraqi government's adoption of automation and digital transformation, as a fundamental step in fighting corruption and improving services".