08/03/2011The Iraqi government to monitor the $1.5 trillion dinars to support the additional ration card
Baghdad, Iraq's cabinet decided on Tuesday, during its periodic increase financial allocations for the ration card $1.5 trillion dinars after the rise in oil prices in the world affected by tensions in the region.
The government's decision in conjunction with popular protests sweep the number of Iraqi since the fifth of February last, to demand the ration card items and to improve services and reduce corruption and create jobs.
He said Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told a news conference held at the Council in Baghdad and attended by the correspondent of news agency Kurdistan (Rn) that "the Council of Ministers decided to increase financial allocations for the ration card for this year to add $1.5 trillion Iraqi dinars, the allocations before."
Skinner attributed the reason to take the resolution to the "proceeds expected from the increased prices and oil production this year," he said, adding that "the ration card will take priority in the expected increase."
And entered Iraq during the past month deals to purchase the subjects of white sugar and rice to support the ration card items, after that increased citizen complaints of poor quality and lack of materials in more than a year.
The Iraqi government decided mid last month, to transmit the amount of $ 900 million appropriated from the budget this year, for the purchase of fighter planes f16, to support the ration card and the social protection network.
And adopt a wide range of Iraqis in the basic food on the tags supplied by the ration card since the start of the international embargo on Iraq in 1991 after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Include the ration card food to distribute five major Iraqi families per month, is flour, rice, cooking oil and sugar, add milk to the children and for a nominal fee.
On the other hand, said a spokesman for the Iraqi government "the Council of Ministers also decided at its amendment of the No. 7 of 2010 of the investment law for real estate and state lands that are monitored for investment," noting that "the system has been changed radically by giving encouragement too large for all investors in the projects residential. "
"It has been reduced percentage given to the State so as to reach this percentage to nearly zero in the land granted to investment projects in the housing sector," noting that "the amendment would create new jobs, a huge private sector and investors in the area of housing."
He pointed to al-Dabbagh said, "This point will contribute to attracting capital to the areas of housing, hotels, shopping malls, entertainment and sports."
He said government spokesman said "It was agreed on a sheet of administrative and governmental reforms discussed by the Council of Ministers last week, which entitles the ministries and State institutions to meet the demands of citizens in terms of appointments and the fight against corruption and provide jobs and service projects."
He added that "These reforms will put into practice the demands of protesters and stimulate all the ministries in order to meet these reforms."
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