PM affirms the government's commitment to ensuring the budget includes its priorities in implementing its schedules
Baghdad-INA
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani affirmed, on Monday, the government's commitment to ensuring the budget includes its priorities in implementing its schedules.
The Prime Minister's media office stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani received the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Sayed Hassan al-Atwani."
"During the meeting, the latest preparations for the 2025 budget schedules were reviewed, as well as the mechanisms and plans to ensure the financing of salaries and expenditures, according to sectors and activities during the current year."
According to the statement, al-Sudani affirmed "the government's commitment to ensuring the budget includes its priorities in implementing its schedules, in order to complete the items of the government program, particularly those related to providing services and completing projects, to achieve the aspirations of citizens in all Iraqi governorates."
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