The local government in Basra discussed today, Wednesday with the United Nations Mission (UNAMI) the activity of international organizations and their work in implementing development projects, and the importance of establishing a complex that includes all international organizations.
The First Deputy Governor of Basra, Eng. Muhammad Taher Al-Tamimi, said in a statement that he discussed with the development coordination official in the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Nawaz Khan, and the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center JCMC, the role played by the international organizations operating in the province, which numbered to 13 organizations, they have implemented 66 projects in the governorate, the most prominent of which are development projects in the reconstruction of heritage houses, the presidential palaces park, and the rehabilitation of infrastructure in some poor neighborhoods.
He stressed “the support of the local government for these projects and the need to provide all the logistical needs of these organizations to activate their work, and the need to provide a special complex for them that brings together all the organizations of the United Nations in one place for easy communication with them, and to activate their work in a larger and wider way, stressing the support of the governorate to allocate land for building this complex that contains all the organizations of the United Nations.”
Al-Tamimi indicated that there was an agreement with the development coordinator of the United Nations Mission to hold a periodic meeting every three months with the United Nations, and the rest of the other international organizations operating in Basra at the local government headquarters, and in coordination with the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center in the governorate.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency