Urgent – .Maysan PC to hold session to discuss Hakim’s initiative

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Maysan Provincial Council will hold a session to discuss “The initiative of the head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, over rehabilitating the province and compensating its citizens for the harms resulted by the practices of the former regime.”

The head of the PC, Abdul Hussien Abdul Ridha, stated to IraqiNews.com “The PC will hold a session at 10 a. m. to discuss Hakim’s initiative especially after the public and official hearty reception for this initiative.”

“We will call the parliament to endorse a special law for this initiative due to its social and economic positive consequences on the province,” he concluded.

Earlier, Hakim launched an initiative to rehabilitate Maysan Province and called to compensate its people due for damages resulted by the practices of the former regime.”

He assured in a speech delivered for a gathering involved intellectual and prominent figures of Maysan Province “The historical depth of Maysan makes it worthy for our concerns by legislating laws to rehabilitate it due to the damages of the wars of the former regime.”

“This initiative involves three basic sides, first is to improve the agricultural lands which were harmed due to the elimination of the marshes,” he added.

“The second is to remove the mines which are planed randomly during Iraq-Iran war,” he stressed.

“The third side is taking 15% of the oil revenues of Southern Iraq to fund the project of upgrading the province,” he continued.

“The SIIC will support this initiative with all its capacities to implement it to regain the historical and cultural position of Maysan,” he concluded.

It is worth mentioning that Hakim launched several initiatives concerning the political, economic and social issues like his last call to consider Basra province as the Economic Capital of Iraq.