Energy Committee: Al-Kadhimi tour to Europe is useful for energy sector

INA - Baghdad - Noor Al-Zaidi

Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee confirmed, on Wednesday, that Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi tour to Europe will be benefited from by bringing sober companies to produce gas and electricity.

Committee member Ghalib Muhammad told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that Al-Kadhimi's visit can be used economically by bringing sober and huge companies in European countries, working in the field of electricity generation, gas and oil extraction - to Iraq.

"Iraq needs those companies in the field of power generation, and gives the sums to them in comfortable installments," he added.

Muhammad explained "If Al-Kadhimi achieves an agreement with sober companies for the production of gas, electricity and even the oil industry, this visit will be economically important," noting that "This visit, we hope to be economic, given that the country is going through a bad economic situation,"

Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi confirmed during his meeting with the heads of German companies that the white paper charts a realistic way to overcome crises, indicating that Iraq has accumulated confidence in the work of German companies.

PM media office included in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that the prime minister met a number of heads of German companies in Berlin, on his second leg of his current European tour.