Minister of Finance Receives World Bank Vice President

Minister of Finance Receives World Bank Vice President
Received the Minister of Finance Baqir al-Zubaidi, World Bank Vice President Shamshad selection and her entourage, which included World Bank Country Director for the Middle East Hadi Arab And Director of the World Bank in Iraq, John Wehbe In the presence of Advisor Finance Minister Aziz Jaafar.

A media source in the ministry for the that he also discussed economic and financial relations between Iraq and the World Bank and ways to enhance them to achieve advancement of financial and economic institutions of Iraq and benefit from the experience bank's staff to set up specialized courses for staff and access to financial support for the advancement of projects in support of the mission in Iraq.

The minister stressed that the return of Iraq to cooperate with international financial institutions have made economic gains in Iraq allowed him to restore cooperation with Iraq and the international integration of financial institutions in the international community and contribute in extinguishing the debt under the terms of the Paris Club and the achievement of important achievements in terms of improving the financial and banking work in Iraq.

For its part, praised Shamshad improvements in the Ministry of Finance and the considerable efforts made to achieve balance in 2010 and successful economic policy of the Ministry of Finance, which Iraq spared the negative effects of the global financial crisis and the desire of the President of the World Bank to support Iraq in all fields, especially "in the field of training, rehabilitation and support strategic projects in it.

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This is another reason world bank was there:

Iraq signed the Convention on the rate the World Bank grant to support the education strategy and education


Iraq has signed, on Monday, the Convention on the rate the World Bank grant to support the strategy of education in Iraq, according to a statement issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi.


The statement said al-Issawi, "signed a paper of the Convention on the Iraqi side, while the World Bank was represented Ms. Camchat World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa."


The statement quoted al-Issawi said that "The Iraqi government has adopted a national strategy to improve the educational reality, and made significant progress made in this area, and are intended to unify the curriculum to suit the situation and the new Iraq."


He added that "this grant is not everything, because the trend in the Council of Ministers focused on the lifting of financial allocations from the budget of the Federal District the sectors of education and the development of the qualitative aspect and the scientific capacity of educational cadres as they represent their sectors of great importance to contribute to enriching the cadres of Iraqi institutions are able to supplement the country's needs of scientists and specialists. "


The statement also quoted Camchat expressing hope that "this grant contribute to strengthening inter-governmental action and international support of Education", stating that "The Management of the World Bank will open new horizons of cooperation with Iraq in the areas of scientific, humanitarian and health."

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