Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Kabul (BNA) Mohammad Karim Khalili chaired the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers.
At the meeting deputy minister for commerce and industries informed the letter of Tajikistan Prime Minister addressed to Khalili pertaining to certain of transit facilities between the two nations.
He stressed that based on Tajikistan government’s request over creation of transit facilities between the two countries this issue has been addressed appropriately.
The meeting then discussed the proposal of mines ministry for continued functions of the north enterprise for 1392 and 1393.
Discussing this issue Minister of Mines said that the northern coal enterprise which employs 600 labors and indirectly provides job for some others is a promising entity and the produced coal of the enterprise forms an export item.
He proposed that in order to create employment and upgrading the level of its production and the ensure increase in the country’s income, permission is granted for the enterprise to continue its functions for another two years.
The Economic Committee confirmed the proposal of Mines Ministry accordingly.
In another part of the meeting the issue of financial accounts and the liability of some other department to the Ariyan Airlines were taken up.
The Ministry of Finance reported to the meeting that $ 34 million of the company is pending with government organs and that non-payment of the company’s resources has faced this company with financial problems.
The meeting instructed the ministry of Finance to immediately deduct the money of the company from their respective budget and deliver it to the Adriana Airlines account.
Meanwhile the Central Statistic department presented a report covering methods of collection of economic statistics, industrial data, agriculture, animal husbandry, foreign trade and other economic sectors.
The department however requested other departments and government organs to cooperate in providing information about their activities and attributed security as an impediment towards collection of data.
The meeting praised the efforts of the department and considering the importance of collection of data asked the related government organs to coordinate their activities with the department and requested the statistic department to attach keen attention towards removal of problems in collection of precise data.
The meeting also discussed the proposal of the national union of labor in respect to the creation of joint committee composed of related government departments, private sector and the union for addressing the problems and needs of the labor.
The meeting instructed formation of a committee composed of representatives of the ministries of finance, labor and social affairs, martyr and the disabled, chambers of commerce and industries, union of craftsmen led by the ministry of economy to address this issue.
