MALIKI - IRAQ NOW ELIGIBLE TO ENTER INTERNATIONAL TRANSPARENCY

GMT Sunday, 10 K 2 2010 09:01 GMT

Al-Maliki in a speech during his attendance at the initiative of transparency in extractive industries in Baghdad

Alsumaria News / Baghdad


Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that Iraq Sevikr be one of the 34 countries entered the organization Transparency International, with Oil Minister that his ministry is working hard to provide legal matters, technical and logistical, which qualifies him to enter into the organization.

Maliki said in a speech during his attendance at the initiative of transparency in extractive industries, in Baghdad, attended by "Alsumaria News", "The oil industry in Iraq, for the first time, become transparent, and for all to see, as in licensing rounds I and II".

Maliki said that "the efforts of the Government made the transparency of national unity in the face of corruption, which has spread during the former regime has widened, and after his fall," stressing the need for "the existence of actions that contribute to work smoothly, finance and investment, and other punish and prevent corrupt."

The Chairman of the Iraqi government to "Iraq has the right to be proud on this day, as will be one of 34 countries entered the organization Transparency International", stating that "This thing indicates that the country has fulfilled all the conditions that qualify it to enter into the organization."

For his part, Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, in a speech at the conference, "The Oil Ministry is working hard to provide all legal matters, technical and logistical, which qualifies him to enter into a bound, and that the ministry was among the first to develop the principle of transparency, even before thinking about joining the organization , compared to the rest of the countries that are oil. "

Shahristani said that "The Ministry publishes reports on what is extracted from crude oil, and the size of oil resources in the country, and companies to our market, through the Internet and other media," adding that it "offered, and full transparency, offers to develop some oil fields on some companies World competent, through competition between these companies in licensing rounds of the first and second. "


. The Oil Ministry announced on 12 were the first to last, at the end of licensing round investment of Iraqi oil fields Second, the volume of investment in oil fields will reach 100 billion dollars, with oil revenues by about $ 200 billion annually, while adviser said the Cabinet that the Council has no reservations on the field won by investment companies.

The Minister of Oil that "licenses will provide tours of Iraq, a place among oil-producing countries, as it would make Iraq the most important countries in the region", stating that "The ministry made contacts with the International Secretariat, hosted by the President of Transparency International, Peter Hayden, in October 2008, Ka reviewed the matters and procedures that allow access to the organization. "

The annual report of Transparency International in 2009 showed that Iraq, Sudan and Burma ranked Ithb in terms of corruption in the world, Somalia took first place in the report, followed by Afghanistan, the report pointed out that countries experiencing internal conflicts in a state of disorder, corruption of any control, and increased in the looting of its natural resources, lack of security and the law. The annual report of Transparency International in 2006, he stressed that Iraq, Haiti, Burma occupied the first rank among the most corrupt countries in the world.


The Transparency International is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1993 in Germany as a non-profit organization are calling for the structural system of a democratic system, and based in the German capital Berlin, and is concerned with corruption.Including political corruption and others, and publishes an annual Corruption Perception Index, which consists of a list compared to the countries in terms of the spread of corruption.

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