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Washington pays tribute to the role of Abadi agreed with the IMF to lend Iraq $ 5 billion

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The US Embassy in Baghdad, hailed on Tuesday, Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abbadi role to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year loan worth 5.4 billion dollars, indicating he expected benefit from an additional $ 12 billion dollars in Iraq's international economic support.


Embassy said in a statement, "the range", "copy, presidential Special Envoy to the international coalition against the Islamic State to Brett makghork visited Iraq from 18 to 21 June being accompanied by us Ambassador to Iraq Stuart Jones.

The Embassy added that "makghork met with senior government officials and security chiefs, including Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abbadi, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim Al-jibouri and Daryl Narrator Governor of Anbar and Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani and Vice President of the Kurdistan Regional Government kobad Talabani."


The Embassy said that "the United States ranks first as a contributor to head for humanitarian assistance to Iraq through its contribution of nearly 800 million dollars in aid since 2014 and look to increase those contributions."

The Embassy stated that "the United States and its coalition partners are also supporting the work of Janos company to mine in the mine by gray in section you selected successfully, paving the way for immediate projects to stabilize and the safe return of residents to their homes eventually."

Embassy confirmed that "makghork praised Prime Minister Haider Abadi to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year loan worth 5.4 billion dollars, and is expected to benefit from an additional $ 12 billion dollars in Iraq's international economic support and establish the micro framework which would enable Iraq return to economic stability and growth."

The Embassy said that Washington takes pride in their assistance to Iraq to organize the amount of 3.6 billion dollars of financial aid to support the IMF program, which was announced during the recent Summit of the Group of seven industrial Nations in Japan.

The Embassy said that "makghork during his visit to Arbil, accompanied by the Consul General in Erbil mittman to the meeting held between the President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Saud, and national security adviser Falah Al-Fayad to discuss coordination and joint planning for future operations to restore connector ISIS terrorists", stating that "makghork promised that the Alliance would support these efforts at all stages of operations to release the connector and promote stability after liberation.


Mentions that Iraq obtained Tuesday (17 may 2016) loan from the IMF worth 13 billion dollars with interest estimated at 1.5 percent. Recent Iraq seeks to borrow from the International Monetary Fund to plug in the balance of this year, amounting to 25 trillion dinars, after oil prices fall to low levels.


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