the Iraqi authorities issued a series of choices related to development initiatives, including facilitating the gas supply task to the Bismayah plant and approving the floating platform project for uploading liquefied natural fuel. Exemptions have been also granted to deal with the water crisis in Basra, along side other selections regarding stalled and suspended initiatives.
This came throughout prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s chairing of the thirty eighth normal cabinet consultation, for the duration of which the united states’s trendy scenario was mentioned, a number of monetary and provider problems had been reviewed, and topics at the agenda had been monitored and decisions have been made concerning them.
according to a statement by Al-Sudani’s office received by using dinaropinions.com, the latter directed, with regard to the undertaking to supply gasoline to the Bismayah strength station, to facilitate the implementation and passage of the fuel pipeline task (forty two) nodes to the station, to go the Rusafa silo affiliated with the Ministry of alternate, without lease or any monetary responsibility.
The assertion added, regarding the floating platform venture for uploading liquefied gas, the Council permitted the tips for reading the gives submitted through corporations to enforce the undertaking, consistent with what became stated in cupboard Resolutions (fifty three and 108) of 2025 and Ministerial Council for strength decision (55) of 2025, and taken into consideration it a strategic development challenge primarily based on cabinet resolution (23700 of 2023) and Legislative decision (767).
in line with the declaration, within the oil document, approval become given to approve the tips of the audit committee for auditing the participation, investment, and joint operation contracts for the (oil) docks affiliated with the Ministry of transport/trendy enterprise for Iraqi Ports, to assess them and ensure their compliance with the phrases of the contracts, acquire technical and monetary feasibility, and pick out violations.
He persevered, that the Council voted, with the purpose of strengthening the infrastructure of the water zone, to exempt the buying committees of the Ministry of Oil/Oil Pipelines organization/Southern Operations Authority from the provisions of the instructions to facilitate the implementation of the Federal general budget regulation (thirteen of 2023) and from cupboard decision (24600 of 2024) to deal with the water disaster in Basra Governorate until it ends.
He added that the Council also voted to extinguish the amounts owed by using the Baghdad Municipality, the municipalities inside the governorates, and the roads and bridges departments to the Ministry of electricity, as a result of providing strength for public avenue lighting functions, provided that those departments can pay the strength fees provided for lighting fixtures functions, starting July 1, 2026.
concerning the follow-up of stalled and suspended tasks, the cupboard authorised the subsequent:
– boom the reserve quantity and the total price of the mission contracting issue (rehabilitation of the first lane and creation of a 2nd lane for the Basra-Faw road).
– along with two components (layout overview and supervision of the implementation of the Samarra metropolis Infrastructure assignment (consulting company), and converting the call of the main mission to (Samarra metropolis Infrastructure (layout and implementation)).
– consisting of the aspect (equipping spiral tomography gadgets for Al-Alam, Amerli, Al-Dhuluiya, and Makishifa hospitals in Salah Al-Din Governorate) among the principal undertaking components, equipping and installing sonar devices, consulting clinics, emergency rooms, a dialysis unit, and different gadgets, and increasing the full price of the assignment.
– increase the reserve quantity and the overall fee of the assignment (production of the Nineveh critical Stadium with an indoor sports hall at the proper aspect of Mosul).
– boom the full cost of the assignment (creation of closed sports halls (iron structures) with a capability of (500) spectators inside the districts of Baghdad and the governorates, variety (6).
increasing the reserve quantity and the supervision and tracking amount for the component (organising a closed sports activities hall with a potential of (500) spectators in Anbar/Ramadi).
– boom the amount of supervision and monitoring for the two additives (organising two closed sports activities halls with a ability of (500) spectators in Salah al-Din/Balad and Dujail).
– increase the supervision and tracking quantity for the thing (organising a closed sports hall with a potential of (500) spectators in Wasit/Al-Numaniyah).
regarding the Najaf-Karbala Metro mission, the Council voted to amend cabinet resolution No. (24306 of 2024) to authorize the national investment fee to settlement with the Malaysian HSS Consulting organization and the Emirati CHSS company (participation), and to provide funding licenses and signal funding contracts to funding agencies or the winning coalition according with applicable legal guidelines and commands. The consulting contract prices shall be (0.6%) for the assessment and audit levels and (1.2%) for the supervision section, on behalf of the companies or coalition that wins the funding opportunity.
regarding energy task contracts, the Council authorized the Minister of Finance or her authorized representative to sign the mortgage settlement for the combined cycle challenge for the Sadr gasoline electricity Plant (2,1), primarily based on the Federal widespread price range law (13 of 2023).
within the same context, the Council of Ministers legal the Minister of Finance or whoever she authorizes to sign a loan agreement to finance the challenge to equip and implement secondary stations (132 KV) for the second one segment of the Iraqi-Jordanian interconnection/ with popular electric global Inc.; based totally on the Federal fashionable budget regulation (13 of 2023) which covered the concepts of cooperation on electricity in Iraq with the organization to finance the mission.
The Minister of Finance or her distinctive consultant become additionally authorized to barter and initial the draft settlement to avoid double taxation and prevent tax evasion on profits and capital among Iraq and Jordan.
The Council authorized the hints of the mins of the consultative assembly at the draft settlement regulating the transport of goods by land between Arab nations in all factors, and the level of its battle with the development street project, thinking of the observations recorded within the minutes of the meeting.
