Baghdad The President of the Republic, Barham Salih, stressed the importance of empowering and rehabilitating youth, benefiting from their energies, and relying on Iraqi labor more than foreign labor.

The President of the Republic, during his meeting today with the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Adel Al-Rikabi, stressed that the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is an important and pivotal ministry because of its connection with the support and attribution of an important class of citizens, and for its huge and multiple tasks, pointing to the need to give the elderly, orphans, the homeless and those with limited income groups a top priority to achieve social justice and provide a free and dignified life.

He pointed out, according to a presidential statement, the importance of the social security and public retirement laws, and the necessity of developing and applying them in a fair and balanced manner, to include all classes entitled to them, and to support these groups with more by qualifying them to get jobs and training them through supporting small projects, stressing the need to activate the Directorate of Survivors Affairs in Ministry and allocating the necessary capabilities for this.

The President of the Republic pointed to the importance of empowering young people, rehabilitating them and benefiting from their energies, relying on Iraqi labor more than foreign workers, and providing training and rehabilitation opportunities and loans in order for them to enter the labor market, stressing that all support is provided to the Ministry and its existing efforts to carry out the tasks entrusted to it.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency