A Reconstruction And Employment conference In Baghdad
29 July 2007 (Iraq Directory)
Iraqi-US 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 Omar, 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 and 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.
Omar said that the Iraqi-US Chamber of Trade 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.” News courtesy of Iraq Updates Limited