Ambassador informed that the Czech Republic actively supports the ongoing banking reform in Iraq through a technical cooperation project of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic (MoF): “We are proud to announce that we will host 10 experts from the Central Bank of Iraq in Prague later this month. Iraqi experts will receive series of lectures, expert meetings and presentations of Czech solutions, all according to earlier defined interests of CBI.”

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As has been stated and confirmed at the conference by the participants: “Economy cannot prosper without a strong and well-functioning banking sector. A successful reform of Iraq's banking system is a prerequisite for the next phase of Iraqi economic reform.”

The meeting, which took place at the Association's headquarters in Baghdad, was attended among the others by the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq and Head of UNAMI Mr. Mohammed Al-Hassan, the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq Dr. Ammar Hamad, the Regional Director of the World Bank Mr. Jean-Christophe Carré, the Head of the European Union Delegation to Iraq Mr. Thomas Seiler and the representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Mr. Ali Al-Barir, as well as the Ambassadors of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the United States, Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

Připravil: Ing. Roman Plevák, Ph.D., vedoucí oddělení obchodu a rozvojové spolupráce, Velvyslanectví ČR v Bagdádu