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An adviser tp the outgoing Iraqi government said on Monday that a high commission to support food security in the country has been formed to alleviate the suffering of Iraq’s poor. Arif Mohammed told AKnews that the outgoing Iraqi government formed the commission that includes the Health, Labour, Social Affairs, Finance and Commerce ministries. "The […]
UNESCO has launched a scientific survey of Iraq’s groundwater in an effort to improve the government's ability to address water scarcity in the country. Iraq is currently facing severe water shortages across most parts of the country, with over 7.6 million Iraqis lacking access to safe drinking water, and an agriculture sector suffering from years […]
Egyptian private- and public-sector officials have criticized the Foreign Ministry's seeming disregard for demands by the Trade Ministry’s Trade Representation Agency for US$1.1billion in compensation to be paid out to Egyptian companies and workers in Iraq as part of the UN's longstanding Oil-for-Food Program, according to a report in Al-Masry Al-Youm. Egyptian companies operating in […]
Iraq has intensified efforts to resolve its debt problems with neighboring Kuwait, in order to end the international restrictions imposed on the country following the invasion of Kuwait two decades ago, said Iraq’s deputy foreign minister. Iraq was placed under United Nations’ Chapter 7 status in 1991 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Speaking to AKnews, […]
The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised the Iraqi National Development Plan (NDP), encouraging the Iraqi government to work more within different levels. “I congratulate the Iraqi government for finalizing the 2010-2014 NDP,” Ki-moon said in a report on Wednesday, as reported by Aswat al-Iraq. He noted that he sees positive initiatives in […]
Iraq lacks appropriate measures in its energy sector that prevents it from managing its export revenues effectively, officials told the U.N. Security Council. Jun Yamazaki, the assistant secretary-general at the United Nations' office of planning and budgets, told the Security Council that Iraq needs to implement an oil-metering system to funnel export revenue toward development […]
A conference on Private Sector Development in Iraq opened on Tuesday in Erbil's Sa'ed Abdullah Hall. The two-day conference is hosted jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Erbil Governorate. Simon Marinso, UNDP Coordinator for Private Sector Development in Iraq told AK News that 30 Directors General from all Kurdistan Ministries have attended […]
Iraq in coordination with the United Nations has formed a joint technical committee to search for co-financing mechanisms for projects of donor countries. This came during a meeting of the advisory board, the Council of Ministers with the representatives of the United Nations.
The plan will target five key areas: ensuring inclusive economic growth; environmental management; promoting good governance and protecting human rights; boosting access to basic services for all; and stepping up investment in women, youth and children.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said Iraq must continue to pay five percent of its oil proceeds into the Compensation Fund even if arrangements for the successor Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) are in place and Iraq stated its commitment to settle all debts inherited from the Saddam regime.
