Basra Administration discusses building of 80,000 housing units with Korean Ambassador

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: The Chairman of the Investment Commission for southern Iraq’s city of Basra has called on Korean companies to study the city’s investment map and enter in competence to build 80,000 housing units in the city.   The said issue had been discussed in a meeting between Basra’s Investment Commission Chairman, Haider Ali Fadhel and Basra Governor, Khalaf Abdul-Samad with the South-Korean Ambassador to Baghdad, Skim Park and his accompanying delegation at Basra Council’s office, with the presence of its Assistant-Governors, Nizar al-Jabiry and Dr. Ahmed al-Hassany.   “The housing sector in Basra is in need of participation by large foreign companies, in order to share in the construction of the 80,000 housing units project in Basra, being part of a national plan to build one million housing units in Iraq, along with the need of the Province to restore the Korean effort, after its suspension in the past period, due to the conditions that passed over Iraq,” Adul-Samad said in a statement, copy of which landed in IraqiNews.com news agency on Wednesday.   On his part, the South-Korean Ambassador pointed out towards his government’s efforts to create “a twinning between Basra and the Korean city of Osan, inviting Basra Governor to visit Korea in the nearest possible time.”   SKH (TI)/SR 547