An Economic Conference On Unemployment
31 July 2007 (Iraq Directory)
An economic conference is being held in Baghdad under the slogan (rebuilding Iraq by the hands of Iraqis) on Monday.
This was announced by Mr. Raad Omar, Executive Director of the American Trade and Industry Chamber, the executive agency of the conference. He said that the conference will be attended by Iraqi companies, the Office of Rebuilding Iraq, representatives of donor countries, the American embassy in Iraq, representatives of a number of ministries and the Iraqi government.
Omar explained that over two days the conference will discuss the phenomenon of unemployment and ways to develop solutions through the creation of successful employment opportunities within the campaign of rebuilding Iraq, and the reduction of unemployment in cooperation with concerned bodies.
He said that the conference will also focus on ways to find proper mechanisms for the recruitment of unemployed to serve reconstruction and to urge Iraqi companies to benefit from such employment.
A number of economic reconstruction projects will be highlighted in this forum before the business community, and a questionnaire will be distributed. The conference is the largest of its kind intended to support and provide jobs for the unemployed in the private sector working on reconstruction.
Meanwhile, Director of the Businessmen’s Center in Baghdad International Airport, Mr. Majid Michel, said that the conference is of particular importance because it will signal the start of reconstruction there with the announcement of several projects for Iraqi companies only.
Mr. Muhannad Abdul Hassan, the Public Relations Director, said a new questionnaire will be used on creation of employment opportunities for unemployed registered in the training institutes of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and programs to place them in projects put to Iraqi companies. News courtesy of Iraq Updates Limited