The Iraqi Minister of Electricity reads "Between the Lines" and reveals the reasons for the delayed energy improvement

Iraqi Minister of Electricity Loay al-Khatib told the British Financial Times on Sunday the reasons for hindering the process of studying and evaluating the offers of foreign advanced companies to improve the electricity service in Iraq.

Khatib said he used "volunteer experts to assess GE's and Siemens' bid and" read between the lines "legally in their contracts so as not to be a future burden on Iraq in terms of supplying electricity.

"He does not have the funding or procedures to review and evaluate the offers of GE and Siemens to improve the status of the electrical grid in Iraq," he said, apparently giving the volunteers the opportunity to do so.

Iraq, the world's largest oil exporter, is suffering from poor electricity and electricity, and its deterioration has led to riots, riots and roadblocks in the southern provinces.

The minister said in a previous tweet through his Twitter page: "Dear citizen, I am talking to you today from a field visit to Al-Anbar province, specifically Falluja, not from my office in Baghdad." Technically, the construction of the stations will not be in a few months but will not take many years. Securing fuel for these obstetric capacities and reconstructing transmission lines and destructive transformations takes two years. "

The minister added: "The import of energy is temporary Iraq has lost 4500 m - and of its obstetric capacity during the war, coupled with the addition of 18% of the transport and distribution system, which has caused extensive destruction, which negatively affected the performance of the national network and processing hours throughout the country, Two years for reconstruction provided financial allocations are available. "

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