2017/11/9 11:43
[Ayna-Baghdad]
Italy has announced important news regarding the maintenance of the dam of Mosul carried out by the giant company [Trivi].
The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers Mehdi Al-Alaq met in his office in Baghdad the Italian Ambassador to Iraq Marco Canelos on the occasion of the end of his duties and praised the work of the Iraqi government, expressing his happinessduring the period of work in Iraq since in 2015, reviewing a number of his contributions during his tenure. "
He noted the Italian ambassador to" train nearly 30 thousand element of the Iraqi security services, and the contribution of Italy funded stabilization fund immediately, and the maintenance of the Baghdad museum and the protection of Nimrud site in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of culture, additional Soft loans to FH , which contributed to Italy, and the completion of the first part of the maintenance of the Mosul Dam, and the extension of the maintenance of the dam to March of next year 2018 ".
"The conference will be held early next year and the role of the Iraqi government in the preparation and coordination with other parties in support of the success of this conference and the reconstruction of liberated cities, and the mechanism of selecting companies in the field of reconstruction and investment.
For his part, Al-Alak expressed his "gratitude for the contribution of the Italian government in supporting the work of the Iraqi government and the friendly countries that support the re-stabilization of Iraqi cities."
He also praised "the efforts of the outgoing Italian ambassador through the coordination between the two governments and the convergence of views in the interest of the two countries."
Iraq was represented by the Ministry of Water Resources, has extended on the third of last month contract maintenance of the Mosul Dam with the Italian company Trevi.
"The current contract between the parties ends in mid-November, but the amount allocated for the contract has not been exhausted," Water Resources Minister Hassan al-Janabi said in a statement. "Given the real need for joint work at the dam site, we have extended the current contract until Depletion of the amount, up to five months. "
"The US Army Corps of Engineers will continue to supervise the implementation of the work," al-Janabi said, noting that "the cost of supervision of the Corps of Engineers is fully covered by the US government."
Several international reports have warned in recent years of the possibility of collapse of the dam in Mosul because of the fragile soil on which the body of the dam was built in the mid-eighties of the last century.
On March 2, 2016, Iraq signed a contract with the Trevi group worth 273 million euros for the restoration and repair of the Mosul dam for 18 months.
Mosul has been hit by multiple building defects since its inception in the 1980s, built on unstable ground, and US and local officials have repeatedly warned it is in danger of collapse.
As long as the Iraqi government has assured its safety of the dam, despite the publication of guidance on how to avoid damage caused by the collapse.
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