Japanese donations to Iraq the most transparent

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Participants at the Japanese support conference highlighted the need for setting up a committee to assess donation-financed projects, noting that the Japanese donations were the most transparent and effective. “All concerned ministries should play a role in the assessment,” Mahdi al-Hafiz, a former minister of planning and a member of the economic committee in the Iraqi Parliament, told IraqiNews.com. The first conference on Japanese support, organized by the Progress Institute for Development Policies and Jayka Graduates Association, opened yesterday in the capital Baghdad with the participation of several Iraqi officials. SS (P) 1