CAIRO — Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli issued Aug. 26 a decree aimed at forming a technical, financial and legal action group that has the contracting, business and logistics expertise to work on reconstruction in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Palestine.
Hassan Abdel Aziz, head of the Egyptian Federation for Construction and Building Contractors (EFCBC) of the Ministry of Housing, announced in a press statement Aug. 26 that the action group would include representatives of some government agencies such as the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Military Production and the Administrative Control Authority.
Abdel Aziz added that the EFCBC is currently examining the Egyptian companies capable of working in the field based on their expertise and capabilities. This aims at enhancing the role of these companies in the abovementioned countries and minimizing the risks they may face. These companies will be announced as soon as the EFCBC examination is over.
Egypt had sent last Feb. 14 a delegation headed by Ibrahim Mahleb, the assistant to the president of the republic for strategic and national projects, to the conference on the reconstruction of Iraq held in Kuwait in the presence of about 200 Egyptian companies. Mahleb stressed Egypt’s keenness to fully participate in Iraq’s reconstruction process.
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