Latakia-SANA
The Prime Minister, Engineer Hussein Arnous, confirmed that during the tour in Lattakia governorate and the meeting with the activities there, a set of needs were noted, the necessary funds will be allocated to activate and complete the project system.
This came during his meeting today with the government delegation visiting Lattakia, members of the People’s Assembly from the province, the executive office of the provincial council, directors of public administrations, heads of unions, federations and organizations. The presidential election and they surprised the world with their stances through which they defied all pressures.
The participants in the meeting presented a set of demands regarding the service reality in the governorate, including supporting rural tourism, securing internal transport buses, accelerating the completion of the Jableh National Hospital, improving the reality of drinking water and the living situation, raising the tourist ownership signal, reaching a fair pricing for manufactured products and materials, creating new organizational areas in Lattakia and reviving the interface. In addition to subsidizing and marketing the citrus crop.
The Prime Minister referred to a group of important projects that are being implemented at the governorate level, including the Lattakia power plant in Al-Rastan with a capacity of 526 megawatts, projects to implement dams and others that support improving the water supply, such as drawing drinking water from the Tishreen 16 dam lake, in addition to the Qasieh Sanitary Landfill, which He stressed the need to close the Al-Bassa landfill and to expedite the investment of the Qassa landfill as quickly as possible.
Engineer Arnous pointed out that the government supports the trend to invest in alternative solar energy, and there are stations that will soon enter service that support the main network. He said: We suffer from an electricity problem, and after our production ten years ago was about 9,000 megabytes, it does not currently exceed 2,350 megabytes, which is equivalent to a quarter of the production quantity.
And he indicated that the government has allocated the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment with an amount of 10 billion Syrian pounds in the framework of supporting its plan to supply internal transport buses, of which Lattakia Governorate will have a share.
The Prime Minister affirmed the government's keenness to accommodate most of the engineers in the public authorities, indicating that some problems occurred with regard to filling vacancies and the location that will be addressed.
A set of demands and responses to them were also reviewed, including those related to organizational schemes and their expansion, the strictness of suppressing construction violations and not resolving them, and the real estate sales law and its impact on raising real estate prices and facilitating procedures for transferring funds between governorates.
During his response to the questions of the participants in the meeting, the Minister of Local Administration and Environment, Eng. Hussein Makhlouf, indicated to the ministry’s follow-up to the supply of various mechanisms of tractors, compressors and firefighting vehicles to support the plans of the ministry and administrative units, pointing out that during the last three years, the civil defense in the governorates has been exceptionally supported by about 600 million Syrian pounds. Every year.
For his part, the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Engineer Mohamed Hassan Qatna, indicated that the prices of fertilizers provided by the state are still subsidized by between 10 and 15 percent, and that the ministry has reopened the sugar factory, and about 5,000 hectares will be planted in the jungle with beet this year, pointing out that the approval to import Tractors are in the Peasants' Union and they require follow-up and implementation.
On the demands to increase compensation for agricultural damages, Minister Qatna stated that the Drought Compensation Fund has been spent on it since its establishment, 8.3 billion Syrian pounds, including 5.3 billion this year.
In turn, the Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Engineer Bassam Tohme, stressed the need for a second governmental fuel station in Lattakia, and that work will be done to increase the number of pumps at the Shati station as a result of the increase in the number of people connected to it, pointing out that the ministry is in the process of contracting with octane fuel stations, a number of which will be allocated to the governorate.
The Minister of Water Resources, Eng. Tammam Raad, pointed out that the ministry is taking a set of measures to improve the reality of drinking water and irrigation alike, including directing the second draft line for drinking water from the Al-Sun spring, which contributes to improving the supply of drinking water in the city of Lattakia, in addition to digging new wells and investing a group of springs. He pointed out that the ministry's plan to exempt drinking water pumping stations from rationing entails additional costs equivalent to one and a half billion.
For his part, the Governor of Lattakia Ibrahim Khader Al-Salem presented the service situation in the governorate and the daily follow-up to identify the needs and find solutions to them, indicating that the issue of drinking water is a priority in terms of follow-up within the framework of improving the water situation that was affected as a result of the decline of rain, the wear and age of networks, and the increase in the periods of electrical rationing.
And he indicated that the governorate has taken a set of measures, including exempting 32 water pumping stations from electrical rationing, 8 partial rationing stations, and digging about 10 wells in separate areas to secure a local water supply, in addition to the presence of a number of wells whose investment is being monitored to improve and a group of springs rehabilitated.
Al-Salem called for securing funds to secure the return of the people of villages affected by terrorism and allocating the necessary funds to rehabilitate their infrastructure.
The meeting was attended by the Ministers of Electricity and Tourism and the Secretary of the Latakia Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
