Baghdad Minister of Planning Khaled Batal Al-Najm stressed the role that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation can play in mobilizing more support for the Iraqi government’s efforts in the field of reconstruction, protection of antiquities and the return of the displaced.
A statement by the Ministry of Planning stated that the minister received, today, Wednesday, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for Political Affairs, Ambassador Youssef Muhammad Al-Dubaie, and his accompanying delegation, and during the meeting, they discussed prospects for joint cooperation between Iraq and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in various fields.
During the meeting, the minister reviewed the economic and social conditions that Iraq has experienced in recent years, and the extent of the severe damage to infrastructure and human resources, as a result of violent terrorist waves, indicating that what Iraq has been subjected to requires a humanitarian and legal position from all humanity to support reconstruction efforts and achieve the development that has been affected in an unprecedented way, pointing to the importance of the role that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation can play, in mobilizing more support for the efforts of the Iraqi government, in the field of reconstruction, protection of antiquities, and the return of the displaced, as well as the possibility of contributing to the financing of development projects in all Iraqi governorates. .
For his part, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation expressed the organization’s readiness to provide all possible types of support to Iraq’s efforts in various fields, pointing to the possibility of benefiting from the Islamic Solidarity Fund and the Islamic Development Bank, which are affiliated with the organization, in the process of financing development projects, especially in the field of investment, reconstruction and preservation of antiquities, calling on the Iraqi side to identify issues that the organization can work to support.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency