Baghdad Prime Minister Muhammad Shayaa Al-Sudani inaugurated, this morning, Saturday, the work of the twenty-ninth session of the Arab Engineering Conference, which was called for by the Iraqi Engineers Union and the Federation of Arab Engineers, under the title “Information Society and Advanced Technologies in the Arab World.”
At the opening of the conference, the Prime Minister said: “Today we evoke history and civilization in your conference. The term engineering and the engineering mentality in a comprehensive sense mean the backbone of most of the civilizations that have risen. Engineering sciences have contributed to the development of societies in a remarkable and amazing way, and they have provided life in a better, easier and more organized manner. I participated in improving aspects of services.”
He added: “The Iraqi Engineers Association, which was founded in 1959, and which is hosting your conference today, is one of the oldest professional associations in the Arab world. It has contributed significantly to professional leadership of engineering work, and has won the community’s trust, making it a safe house to protect the profession and take care of the interests of beneficiaries, and a center For experience and professional advice, and led the engineering community to be a regional and global competitor.
Al-Sudani praised the role of Iraqi engineers through all the circumstances that our dear country went through, and saluted their patience and adherence to their high professionalism and their keenness to provide the best in their various fields.
He also praised the creative work of quite a few Iraqi figures, which the world witnessed in the field of engineering, calling on engineers to have a distinguished role in the next stage and in the vital sectors that were referred to in the ministerial curriculum.
Al-Sudani stressed that: “The government is working to provide everything that achieves the optimal investment of natural and human resources through economic reforms that focus on improving the work environment and overcoming obstacles to expertise and competencies,” noting: “Diversifying sources of income cannot be achieved without a clear and serious partnership with the private sector.”
Al-Sudani continued: “I do not miss to congratulate the Supreme Council of the Federation of Arab Engineers for holding its 78th session in the capital, Baghdad, the place where this ancient council was founded,” calling on the members of the council to take a decision to return its headquarters to the place of its foundation, so that Baghdad can embrace it again, pledging to provide all forms of The necessary support for that.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency