“We looks for building a national economic system,” Iraq’s Parliament Speaker says

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq ’s Parliament Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify, has said on Tuesday that he was looking forward for the building of a national economic system that insures equivalence in rights, opportunities and duties in Iraq .   “We must all cooperate, each stemming from his position, experience and potentials, to achieve or lay correct basis, in order to achieve stability and peace for our homeland, as well as freedom and prosperity for our people,” Nujeify said in a speech at the Iraqi Economic Partnership Conference, held in the Parliament’s building.   “We are all looking forward to restore our people back into a productive and not consumptive people, taking into consideration that Iraqis have initiated the beginning of the civilization of the whole humanity,” he said.   The works of the Conference for Partnership of Economists, Social and Government Activists, was opened in Baghdad early in the day, under chairmanship of the Parliament Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify and the UNSG’s Special Representative in Iraq , Ad Melkert, with the presence of a number of Iraqi and Arab Businessmen.   SKH (IT)   1152