ERBIL, August 14 (AKnews)
The Kurdistan Region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani headed a meeting of the Council of Ministers' presidency along with the region's governors and deputy PM Imad Ahmed.
The aim of the meeting was to look closely at the problems in the region and discuss solutions.
In the meeting, members discussed decentralization in the Kurdistan Region and ways to give more power to governorates over red tape in residents' affairs, ownership of lands disputes, public services, implementation of master plans and partnership between governorates and directorates.
Barzani decided to have more meetings like this in the future.
A committee was formed recently for decentralizing governorates in the region. The meeting's participants asked the committee to complete its work as soon as possible.
In the meeting the ministers were asked to follow up the decisions made in the gathering and to prepare their agenda for the next meeting.
© AK News 2012
