Baghdad signs transactions with European companies for establishing an electricity station

The Iraqi news agency said that Iraq signed 70 million dollars contracts with European Companies to resume building electricity stations in north the country as the work in it stopped during the second Gulf War in 1991.

The agency quoted as head of the electric projects network Soleiman Khalaf as saying that Iraq signed 11 contracts worth 700 million dollars according to the oil-for-food program that is signed with U.N to resume the work in establishing the station.

The work in the station stopped following the international sanctions on Baghdad due to the Iraqi invasion to Kuwait in 1990.

Khalaf said that the companies are from Germany, Italy, U.K and Yugoslavia and they will export the necessary equipment's to Iraq to run the station to fill the lack in the electric supplies.