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A consultative meeting on policies for Iraq Japan Japanese ODA with Iraq ...

August 1, 2010

A consultative meeting on policies for Iraq Japan Japanese ODA with Iraq

Held at the Japanese Embassy in the presence of the Japanese ambassador to Iraq, Shoji Ogawa and chief adviser to Prime Minister Thamer Ghadban, the second consultative meeting on policies for Japan's official development assistance (ODA) with Iraq.

And stressed the Japanese embassy said in a statement that "the meeting second consultation chaired by the Deputy Director General of the International Cooperation Bureau in the Japanese Foreign Minister Akira Yamada, Thamer Ghadban in the presence of representatives of the Embassy of Japan in Iraq, told the Japan International Cooperation (JICA), and more than 30 personal Iraqi official from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in addition to the ministries concerned.

Ambassador Ogawa said in his speech during the meeting that "the objective of the meeting is to share the vision of Japan's development aid and development policies in Iraq, as well as to promote mutual understanding them, and coordination between the policies of both countries so that appropriate programs and projects of cooperation provided by Japan with the procedures for Iraq's development of procedures are under way involving National Development Plan 2010 to 2014. Since most of the money that Japan announced submitted a five-billion dollars to rebuild the infrastructure of post-war period had been achieved, there is a tendency for the rehabilitation programs and projects of Japan's cooperation with Iraq."

ODA) وتحدياتها. For his part, Deputy Director General International Cooperation Bureau in the Japanese Foreign Akira Yamada explanation of the policy of official development assistance of Japan (ODA) and its challenges.

Presenting an overview of Japanese aid to Iraq continued and explained "four areas of cooperation priority to Japan, namely, strengthening of governance and the integration of society, the development of private sector activities, investment in the foundations of economic growth, and improving the basic infrastructure of living.

"Japan attaches importance to Iraq's reconstruction and development, and it will continue to play their role towards more progress and success of Iraq in these areas as well as in his democracy."

Chief adviser to Prime Minister Thamer Ghadban explained that "the economic performance of the broader and the essence of the national development plan which was successfully launched in July 2010, and priority areas of expected Iraq to cooperate from Japan", reiterating the Government's request from the Government of Japan, "further investigation of the loans Japan's official development assistance."

The statement noted that the "Embassy of Japan sincerely hopes that more programs and projects for future cooperation to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two countries. After Japan has provided training for over 3800 Iraqis belong mostly to the government sector since 2003.

Japan has also extended grant aid and ODA loans Japanese (ODA) projects in the areas of electricity, health, communications, water supply, security, oil, transport, industry and others.

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