The Council of Ministers: Securing the country's need for flour and strictly monitoring bakeries and controlling prices

Damascus-Sana

The Cabinet affirmed the continuation of efforts to secure the country’s need for flour, whose positive results will emerge during the next few days, and tighten monitoring of bakeries and increasing sales and accredited outlets to ensure that citizens obtain their allocations and get rid of crowding and the necessity for all efforts and field presence for those involved in the markets to control prices and direct contact with Citizens and provide them with all possible facilities in various fields.

During its weekly session, headed by Prime Minister Hussein Arnous, the Council agreed to send twenty doctors with all specializations on a monthly basis to Deir Ezzor Hospital to provide health services to the people in the governorate around the clock.

The council discussed the vision of the ministries of agriculture and industry to develop the agricultural reality and agricultural industries and provide production requirements to reach food industrial products with a competitive advantage that meet the needs of the local market while exporting the surplus in a way that contributes to improving the trade balance, stressing the need to take the observations made during the session so that the vision can be finalized and programs developed. Time frame to implement.

Eng. Arnous stressed the importance of the continuous evaluation of the ministries' performance and the accurate description of their work in order to identify and address the obstacles and increase reliance on competencies that would develop the work of the public sector and optimally invest the human energies, pointing to the need to follow up the development and service projects that were launched in the governorates and accelerate the pace of their implementation.

The Council agreed to grant the Syrian Trade Corporation an advance of 5 billion Syrian pounds to secure basic materials and instructed the Ministry of Internal Trade to present a memorandum on the reality of the institution’s work and the extent of its positive intervention on controlling the prices of basic materials and asked the concerned authorities to evaluate the experience of automating the distribution of oil derivatives, bread and food supplies to enhance their advantages. And avoiding its negative aspects and expanding its application to deliver support to all those who need it.

The Council also requested the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment to assess the reality of the industrial zones and their investments and the factories that started production and stopped working, and to find out the reasons for that, and the Ministry of Industry to submit a memorandum on the work of cement and iron factories, the quantity of production and its real costs, to put in place the appropriate mechanism to support them and ensure the provision of the local market need for them.

The council decided to amend the decision on the allowances for the works of the marine public property, which aims to preserve these properties and increase the revenues resulting from their occupation, and to discuss the stages that the alternative housing file for Project 66 has made, and it stressed the follow-up of implementation with the maximum available capabilities and as quickly as possible.

The Council of Ministers also approved the contract to establish four desalination plants for wells in Al-Hasakah Governorate and to complete the implementation of the two buildings of the Judicial Complex in Salkhad and the Justice Palace in the Sweida governorate.