Finance Ministry pays 20% of regional projects' funds
The Iraqi Finance Ministry on Wednesday announced that it has paid 20 percent of the funds allocated for regional development investment projects, stressing that provinces should submit projects' e.xecution budgets; otherwise, funding would stop.
"The funds are related to the year 2009," the ministry said in a release received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The ministry is working to remove all the obstacles related to funding so that provinces can develop," it added.