Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani called on US companies to work inside Iraq.
Al-Sudani said, the current stability in Iraq should be encouraging for American companies to engage in important development projects in the fields of energy, communications, housing, health care, education, transport and others.
He added that it is also important to fight corruption, which is the other face of terrorism, as its impact is no less destructive, and to work to ensure that the people’s money is directed towards valuable goals, and that we must also work to diversify our economy away from dependence on oil, even while we take advantage of our position as the second largest oil exporter in OPEC (in addition to our acquisition of large natural gas reserves).
Al-Sudani stated that our urgent need for American expertise and technology extends to clean energy and the green economy, as we seek to develop sustainable and renewable sectors, adding that “the strategic framework agreement laid the legal basis for these activities, and that by investing in them, we will be able to put Iraq in a position that helps it strengthen its democracy, strengthen the state, and strengthen the rule of law, which are the pillars that will allow us to restore Iraq to its historical brilliance.
