Reconstruction and Employment Conference in
Baghdad
2007-08-06
Iraqi American Chamber of commerce and Industry held an economic
conference combining extensive Iraqi companies in addition to the
Office of Reconstruction and representatives of donor countries to
highlight the new program (Iraq first... $5 billion) sponsored by
the multinational forces.
The Chamber's Executive Director, Raad Ommar, said that the
conference "brings Iraqi companies, the Office of Reconstructing
Iraq, representatives of the American embassy and of the donor
countries, a high-level delegation from the Ministry of Labor and
Social Affairs as well as the Ministry of Higher Education and
Scientific Research in addition to a senior delegation representing
the Iraqi government."
He explained that the conference will continue for two days at Al-Rasheed
Hotel in Baghdad and that it would discuss the phenomenon of
unemployment and ways to develop solutions through the creation of
employment opportunities in the campaign of rebuilding Iraq and in
cooperation with the concerned bodies.
He emphasized that the conference would also create real employment
opportunities for Iraqi employments and ways of ending the obstacles
that stand in front of them by working to find proper mechanisms for
employing the (unemployment in Iraq) to serve the reconstruction of
Iraq and urged Iraqi companies and businessmen to employ this
segment in the various projects which will be presented during the
Conference.
Ommar said that the Iraqi American Chamber of Commerce and Industry
will make an important questionnaire, which is the first of its kind
in Iraq, during the conference in order to support and provide jobs
for the unemployed in the private sector.
On his part, Director of the Businessmen Center in Baghdad
International Airport, Majid Michel, said "We are trying through the
conference to announce several projects to be allocated to only
Iraqi companies aiming to employ Iraqi manpower."
Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [27/07/2007]
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