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Meeting Eye Media
Eye Media Agency meets Minister of Planning & Developmental Cooperation
13/08/2009
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In light of tasks assigned to Minister of Planning & Developmental Cooperation Ali Ghalib Baban, either in the frame of planning operations, developmental cooperation, statistics, missions of standardization & quality control and in the frame of rehabilitations, administrative development and removing all mines from the entire Iraq, the Ministry's organizational structure has been prepared, including a host of formations lead to many missions. For us, to get acquainted with these missions, Eye Agency has met the minister and conducted the following interview:
Eye / what is the role of the Ministry in promoting the country's economy?
Ministry of Planning is the mastermind for Iraqi government in field of development and public governmental administration; it is supposed that it should lead the march of development in the country and the civilized nations never give up the planning.
Nowadays, the planning plays a big role in directing Iraq's economy and we have our endeavors to establish the ties of cooperation and coordination and exchanging data between us and other ministries, the Ministry can not do an isolated role away from other ministries.
Eye / is the Ministry ready to conduct the census?
Census can't be comprehensive one and any defect will lessen its credibility, accuracy, and accountability. In Iraq we can't exclude places from census, there is a concern from Arabs and Turkmen regarding conduct the census in its time. Mousel's MPs asked to postpone it due to the current situation in Mousel, but we will do all our best to persuade the political opposition to conduct the census in its time.
Eye / what have procedures been taken to face the upcoming water challenge to Iraq?
The water challenge in Iraq is the first one that Iraqi citizen and economy face in future. We got agriculture started to be extinct and Iraqi human suffered a lot and getting Iraq's water rights from neighboring countries through documented accords, adding to that the best use of water by following the modern irrigation tactics.
This interview has been conducted by Eye Media's correspondent, Harith Mohammed, Camera man, Akeel Mohammed
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