The governor of Basra: agreed to hold a conference in Kuwait to invest in the province


2016/8/15 11:19


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Basra's governor revealed Majid Nasaroa, the agreement with Kuwait to hold a conference to discuss investment opportunities in Basra.

He Nasraoa- who is visiting Kuwait Halaa- in a press statement, he said that "Iraqi businessmen traveling with him in the delegation agreed with some of their Kuwaiti counterparts at a conference in Kuwait to present investment opportunities in the province of Basra to the local government in Basra to creating opportunities and open investment horizons to enter Kuwaiti companies to the province. "

He added that he "put up during his meetings with the Kuwaiti political leadership the possibility of facilitating the entry of traders and Iraqi businessmen to Kuwait to the difficulty of the procedure for obtaining a visa and stay in the current period," noting that "the Kuwaiti side expressed its readiness to facilitate all procedures, especially that there is an old historical relationship between the traders and businessmen Iraqi and Kuwaiti counterparts.

Nasraoui said he "will meet on Monday, together with the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Basra, his deputy and a number of officials, businessmen in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kuwait," to draft a work to facilitate the exchange of experiences and business between the two sides. "

He pointed to the presence of more than a Kuwaiti company operating in the province of Basra in the areas of gas and cleaning and expressed his hope that there will be other opportunities for investment.

He pointed out the governor of Basra to meet the Director of the Iraqi ports member of the visiting delegation to Kuwait with his counterpart in Kuwait Ports Authority to discuss integration in this sector between the two sides and to achieve the goal of the visit and all that would strengthen the relationship between the two sides.

Nasraoui added that the visiting Basra province, the delegation also includes a number of cultural figures of the province, expressing hope for a deal to establish a joint and literary and artistic cultural festival between Basra and Kuwait.

With regard to projects in Kuwait Basra Nasraoui he reported that Kuwait Surgical Hospital donated instituting the Kuwaiti government on the verge of finishing the project, explaining that the hospital consists of seven floors and a capacity of 250 beds and has a ten lobbies for operations.

Asked whether Iraq has a plan to develop land border crossing between the two countries pointed out the governor of Basra that the development project put on the infrastructure level and referred to the work by the company in the near future, "but the financial problem through which Iraq delayed its implementation because there are other priorities." .

The eighth Nasraoui Kuwaiti leadership position in the re-opening of the Consulate of Kuwait in Basra "that had existed for decades, and the insistence of His Highness the Emir of Kuwait has re-opened,"
pointing out that the Kuwaiti Consul in Basra Ambassador Yousef Ashour pigment find all the love and affection of the people of Basra. He pointed to the governor of Basra consulate ceremony held on the occasion of the National Day of the State of Kuwait for the first time in the province of Basra years ago "with the participation of various segments of society in Basra, the body of the relationship between the Kuwaiti and Iraqi peoples optical depth, especially."

Asked about his assessment of the security situation in Basra he explained that it "is considered a safe city if compared to other Iraqi cities to organize Daash terrorist tries to tamper Basra file security as an economic city with the ports of Iraq and the proportion of 80 to 90 percent of Iraqi exports and the six consulates but could not targeted except in one case in the last three years, which is an exception. "

The new governor of Basra province to express my sincere thanks to the Emir of Kuwait for its support and permanent support for Iraq and most recently the contribution of the State of Kuwait at the donor conference to support Iraq, which was held in Washington to help displaced Iraqis, which confirms that Kuwait is "proactive" in this regard.

The governor of Basra Majed Nasraoui began accompanying delegation official visit to Kuwait on Sunday, where he was received by the Emir of Kuwait Zrias Council of Ministers and Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs in the state that the visit to continue Tuesday.


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