SYRIANNEWS — broadcast
20260920 140000 UTC
534 transcript segments
Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking
Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive.
Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record.

[00:00:00] Also, even crude oil will be expensive at these prices. God willing, things will
[00:00:03] move towards solutions for supply
[00:00:07] routes and we can secure the material at these prices.
[00:00:11] its budget is, what its arrangements are, and its relationship with The statements
[00:00:14] with the company and production we mentioned earlier
[00:00:20] that you issue a decision regarding
[00:00:22] God willing, during our next meeting with
[00:00:22] Therefore, I will reconfirm it now. At one point, salaries, ah, regarding salaries. Ah, this is another issue. I just mentioned some
[00:00:26] brothers who might be getting distracted because the
[00:00:27] projects exist in session is long, Mr. President. I mentioned that we have the workers' law
[00:00:31] applied to the wage system in the state. There are
[00:00:36] cars, so our production experience contracts that we are talking about.
[00:00:37] this means that the price We brought an engineer from outside, we brought an our implementation plan oil expert, we brought engineers. in
[00:00:40] We gave them some wages, we employed them according to law
[00:00:43] 53, which was in force in the north for some employees to
[00:00:46] give them. But the origin of salaries in the Syrian
[00:00:49] Petroleum Company, the Syrian Electricity Company, and the Syrian
[00:00:52] Mining Company is still the
[00:00:55] day. wage law adopted within the Syrian state. So some salaries of some engineers became
[00:01:00] loose. The company president spoke to me
[00:01:06] how they see it. I told you that in many project has been stopped since I am the chairman of the board of directors of the company, that we want to raise a proposal for bonuses or increase the wages of some engineers because
[00:01:07] countries, I looked at many companies like HSK, Conoco,
[00:01:09] and others and UC started to attract
[00:01:13] engineers within the company,
[00:01:15] and employees who come daily from so they will lose their cadres. So we started giving them some bonuses
[00:01:18] of students and employees rely on and privileges that the professor mentioned, that our vision
[00:01:22] is, I mean, when he mentioned that we will give or are
[00:01:24] for completing this giving 4000 to some experts, in addition, this is the company's vision one
[00:01:28] day to reach this stage. Wages and salaries have not yet
[00:01:33] and allocate sufficient quantities of adopted a wage system for the company, but rather bonuses and incentives
[00:01:35] Thank you. for some employees. In our ministry, centrally, we attracted some
[00:01:40] shut down and a unit to be established in large part of experts. We brought a manager to organize the electricity sector from Ireland, a doctor with
[00:01:43] renewable energy cards. We gave him an experience contract. I mean, you come and say that
[00:01:47] the Ministry of Energy is at 1000 dollars and 1500 dollars. No, it's not like that.
[00:01:50] We are still under the workers' law, the wage law
[00:01:53] adopted within the workers' law in the Ministry of Administrative Development. So
[00:01:57] this is the issue. God willing, we will reach a stage where we give salaries and wages. Like
[00:02:01] Water Resources Department. these,
[00:02:01] And what is its policy regarding like salaries for experience contracts, like salaries that have seen
[00:02:05] a qualitative improvement
[00:02:06] that we do not import a liter of in their wages and salaries. We don't have the ability,
[00:02:08] diesel nor a liter of I mean, we can't give to electricity. We don't have the ability now
[00:02:11] to give them these wages. If we say electricity is losing 1 billion and 650 million,
[00:02:15] there is no ability to give them these wages and salaries. We can
[00:02:19] give them like health, which saw a qualitative increase, and higher education
[00:02:22] and education and experience contracts that
[00:02:25] we have, and the People's Assembly and all salaries whose wages became good. We will be able
[00:02:30] parties, that agrees on sudden increase to reach. In wages
[00:02:31] first, our Ministry is to such levels, God willing, we will reach them, God
[00:02:33] willing.
[00:02:38] I answered the female engineers, but you were working on the phone.
[00:02:43] plan now, you are an expert in
[00:02:44] could have been funded, You were talking on the phone, a call, and I was answering the question you answered that you asked. Okay,
[00:02:48] the issue of preventing well drilling in
[00:02:51] since it will run on water, preventing well drilling in water. Actually,
[00:02:53] because we have a problem with groundwater,
[00:02:56] we have 50,000 random wells in one area. The initial reading. We
[00:03:00] are counting them. This led to the depletion of
[00:03:03] groundwater and we have drought in the region. So if we open
[00:03:07] budgets, but the time does not the issue of well drilling in all water basins, the basins in
[00:03:11] Syria, it will lead to severe drought
[00:03:16] you please, that this and today Daraa is facing a problem with drinking water because
[00:03:18] it was allowed, or not allowed, random wells were dug there.
[00:03:22] Therefore, it is a policy made to preserve
[00:03:25] groundwater to preserve
[00:03:26] drinking water.
[00:03:40] Colleague, Mr. Minister, regarding colleague Yasser's question about government
[00:03:44] and the governorate. So it appears on austerity.
[00:03:46] the media, it didn't appear, of course, but it appears on Excuse me, regarding the
[00:03:49] meters, I have these on the left. I noticed that we talked about the meters because
[00:03:52] he mentioned smart meters. We talked about them. The issue of cars and austerity
[00:03:56] for the ministry we have,
[00:03:59] among the austerity measures, are salaries and wages.
[00:04:02] Is there an urgent plan to address this I just mentioned our salaries and wages
[00:04:04] winter, or will it be flooded as in in the ministry very clearly. I mean, the
[00:04:06] salary schedule, go ask for it from the Ministry of Finance. These are the salaries applied
[00:04:10] in the Ministry of Energy. There is nothing, I mean, above the roofs
[00:04:16] the country, and he is thanked for expenses. This is the matter, but and nothing hidden below. These are the salaries you want. Welcome, we will provide them to you. The wage
[00:04:19] and salary system adopted in our Ministry of Energy and its affiliated
[00:04:22] companies, by God, a few days ago, Professor Omar Shakhrouq, the head of the Electricity
[00:04:25] Company, told me, "Our engineers are starting to leave." Our salaries,
[00:04:29] I mean, he didn't say, "I went to the Euphrates Dam Foundation and found
[00:04:33] 11 engineers there." I visited it. All of them are on the verge of their fifties, on the verge of
[00:04:38] local community, there was from their sixties. In their fifties, I asked him, "Where are the young people?" He said, "They are not coming." These are your salaries.
[00:04:40] These are the salaries you are giving. The employee is not coming.
[00:04:44] Therefore, these are the salaries and wages.
[00:04:46] their car and came to He says regarding austerity and exaggeration in the matter, I am with
[00:04:49] austerity, and I sent a letter to the Ministry of Energy
[00:04:52] to reduce fuel expenses
[00:04:56] in the world do not exceed and reduce operations, and this may even
[00:05:00] affect the quality of services one day. But today, if I say I want to introduce three
[00:05:03] new oil products, diesel,
[00:05:05] and burdens on in the market, it requires dozens of tours from the field
[00:05:08] energy services department. How can I be austere with diesel for him? So he will have to take
[00:05:12] instead of one or two tours last time, he will take ten tours now to prevent fraud
[00:05:15] and monopolization and selling, and so on. So this is a necessary
[00:05:19] work that is required of us. We cannot reduce expenses on it. And there are administrative
[00:05:23] and other works that we reduce as much as possible. And our
[00:05:26] expenses as a ministry are available. Anyone who wants to see
[00:05:29] them is most welcome. We will show them to you. Administrative expenses
[00:05:33] and salaries and wages and cars and expenses
[00:05:36] are ready, an open book for all of you. Welcome.
[00:05:39] Comrade Husam Adnan
[00:05:42] Hamdan Hello, Your Excellency, the Minister.
[00:05:45] First, thank you for the briefing today. The hearing session. I
[00:05:49] have a basic question. The first question is, in light of the government's
[00:05:52] inability to meet the demands of the public today to lower prices, especially since
[00:05:56] the price increase came with the beginning of winter
[00:05:59] and with the beginning of the academic year. I mean, the Syrian citizen today has
[00:06:03] two problems with the beginning of the academic year: high costs
[00:06:06] and the beginning of winter. In light of the government's inability, is it possible to introduce
[00:06:10] tax exemptions for alternative energy? I mean, solar energy today, even
[00:06:14] batteries. If there are tax exemptions, the Syrian citizen
[00:06:18] can buy four or five panels and install them, and thus reduce his electricity
[00:06:21] consumption. Second, I say that
[00:06:25] something should be put in place about the government austerity plan. It should
[00:06:29] be announced, and the honorable representative was mentioning
[00:06:32] the issue of convoys, ministerial
[00:06:35] convoys, and officials' convoys. I see that this matter
[00:06:38] is somewhat provocative to the public, and I hope that this matter will end.
[00:06:43] The third and final intervention: Is it possible to have cooperation between
[00:06:46] the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Energy? Today, the transport
[00:06:49] vehicles consume a
[00:06:51] the diesel, frankly, they are dilapidated and worn out.
[00:06:55] Is it possible to replace them with energy-efficient
[00:06:57] transport vehicles? Frankly, even this microbus
[00:07:00] is humiliating for the Syrian citizen in terms of entry and exit
[00:07:03] from it.
[00:07:07] Colleague Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Abdullah
[00:07:09] The year began
[00:07:13] with promises and statements announced
[00:07:20] gasoline. Then came
[00:07:24] the return of Al-Jazeera to the Syrian state,
[00:07:27] and the good tidings and promises
[00:07:30] began, only to find ourselves
[00:07:33] facing a crisis of fuel shortage,
[00:07:37] leading to a large,
[00:07:41] in prices. This matter left the
[00:07:45] citizen in constant confusion,
[00:07:48] always seeing solutions as his responsibility,
[00:07:51] without seeing the state directly bearing this responsibility.
[00:07:54] This deficit
[00:07:56] and it can be estimated
[00:08:00] at 150 to 200 million dollars
[00:08:03] monthly, and for a temporary period, as the citizen was promised
[00:08:07] with better economic methods.
[00:08:10] Why don't we see clear economic solutions?
[00:08:13] The citizen endured electricity and remained silent
[00:08:17] about it, only to find himself facing
[00:08:20] oil and oil derivatives, and he does not know
[00:08:23] where he will go in the next stage.
[00:08:26] Therefore,
[00:08:32] colleague Abdul Fattah Obaid.
[00:08:35] Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings. Regarding the water
[00:08:38] crisis in the Ghab Plain, 500 million cubic meters, according to the Ghab
[00:08:42] Development Authority, go to the Mediterranean Sea. Of course, there are three
[00:08:46] dams in the Ghab Plain: Afamia, Qastoun, and Zayzun, which need
[00:08:49] repair or maintenance. I mean, the crisis
[00:08:53] caused a loss of 8600
[00:08:55] tons of wheat, 40,000
[00:08:59] dunams of land submerged in water,
[00:09:02] and the summer in the Ghab Plain is a desert without water.
[00:09:06] So the question is, is there a plan in
[00:09:09] case of inability to repair?
[00:09:16] last year? The second point is that the Minister mentioned that 250
[00:09:19] million dollars are provided to the Ministry of Finance, and all
[00:09:22] sectors are losing at the Ministry of Energy.
[00:09:26] How are you providing these 250 million to the Ministry of Finance? May God reward you,
[00:09:29] Your Excellency, the Minister. Colleague Muhammad Walid
[00:09:32] Al-Bakir. Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, Mr. President,
[00:09:36] colleagues, Your Excellency, the Minister. Peace be upon you and God's mercy
[00:09:39] and blessings, Your Excellency, the Minister. May God grant you strength. You are carrying three
[00:09:43] ministries, and I honestly call for the separation of these ministries because each ministry
[00:09:47] needs a great deal of effort, especially the issue of water.
[00:09:50] I mean, it is partially related to energy, but
[00:09:54] its primary relationship is with water. And I, in turn, direct this to the Speaker
[00:09:57] of the People's Assembly, that the water sector be part of
[00:10:01] the Agriculture and Food Security Committee because its relationship is organic
[00:10:04] and essential to agriculture, not to energy. The other question,
[00:10:08] Your Excellency, the Minister, I mean, our meeting here
[00:10:11] is because of the recent fuel crisis
[00:10:14] and its costs
[00:10:17] the Syrian people. I join my voice to that of Dr. Nawwar Najm, meaning we
[00:10:21] should not burden the citizen
[00:10:25] with all the crises that occur as a result of the prevailing
[00:10:28] global situation. Therefore, it would have
[00:10:32] been better to keep diesel as
[00:10:35] it is because it has links to agriculture and transport,
[00:10:39] and there is no objection to a
[00:10:43] slight or gradual increase in gasoline, for example. Its impact
[00:10:47] on the living standards of citizens would have been
[00:10:50] less.
[00:11:10] Colleague Abdel Karim Ahmed
[00:11:12] Barakat
[00:11:14] May God bless you, Your Excellency, the Minister, and may God reward you with all goodness.
[00:11:18] There is a project to draw water from the Euphrates
[00:11:21] River through a canal passing from Aleppo to its western countryside
[00:11:25] to Idlib. This
[00:11:27] since the beginning of the revolution, as
[00:11:31] it reached the village of Sheikh Ali in the western Aleppo
[00:11:34] countryside. This project
[00:11:36] serves a large segment of farmers and has
[00:11:40] a very important
[00:11:44] significance for farmers.
[00:11:46] The question is, what is the timetable
[00:11:49] project? And may God reward you with all
[00:11:51] goodness.
[00:11:55] Mr. Minister, please.
[00:12:00] First, we are reviewing the questions. There is a point I overlooked, the view
[00:12:04] of the hearing session that one of
[00:12:07] the honorable representatives mentioned. In fact, it is an important session
[00:12:11] to highlight our challenges and the problems
[00:12:14] within the energy sector. We are talking as the Ministry of Energy
[00:12:18] to inform you about the strategic
[00:12:22] plans and the interim plans that we are working on, so that you can be a help to us in
[00:12:25] the matter of legislation and in conveying
[00:12:29] the voice of the Syrian people behind you. It is certain
[00:12:32] that you represent this people, through whom
[00:12:35] you can convey their concerns, and we hear about them more closely. So the session is
[00:12:39] very positive, God willing. As for
[00:12:42] the issue of tax exemptions, God willing, this issue is with
[00:12:45] customs, the ports and customs authority. God willing, we will send them a letter requesting
[00:12:49] tax exemptions. Of course, there is a committee, not a committee
[00:12:52] from several
[00:12:55] exemptions, and this is one of the options
[00:12:59] for relying on renewable energy.
[00:13:01] Regarding the issue you mentioned again, the issue
[00:13:04] of convoys, cars, austerity, and so
[00:13:08] on. This is sometimes also social media, we go back to the same
[00:13:11] issue. I remember the day we went to open the Alouk station
[00:13:15] in Al-Hasakah. I don't know if any of the honorable representatives from
[00:13:19] Al-Hasakah were with us. I think they were
[00:13:22] there. I went with two cars.
[00:13:25] His car and a car with his escort and the media
[00:13:28] and the young people. And I was in my car with the assistant, the director
[00:13:32] of the water institution, and so on. But when we arrived at Alouk station, there were perhaps 200
[00:13:36] cars. I, as a minister, went with two cars,
[00:13:39] my private car and an escort car with the media. We went in
[00:13:43] one car, so the cars were already full. All the cars
[00:13:46] were full. Everyone here is luxurious. Each one went with his assistant. The director
[00:13:49] of the General Organization for Drinking Water came with us. Okay, the director of ceremonies was with us.
[00:13:53] I mean, it wasn't like a driver took us or anything. But what happened was
[00:13:56] that there was the director of water in the region
[00:14:00] and the honorable representatives and the Red Cross were there
[00:14:03] and UNICEF and security
[00:14:06] and the official of the region
[00:14:11] the media, not the same cars. There is a problem, meaning if
[00:14:14] it appears on the media, yes, that is a convoy, and many honorable
[00:14:18] representatives and ministers were wronged in this matter, to be honest. I mean, to clear my conscience, they go, and a minister
[00:14:22] has one car. One of the ministers told me, "I went with my car, imagine. I have ten cars, brother."
[00:14:26] By God, it was one car. So he imagined that there were some people who were with him, for example,
[00:14:30] from this region, so it appears. This matter has some exaggeration. I am not saying
[00:14:33] that there should not be austerity. There must be a reduction in administrative
[00:14:39] it should not be viewed as a specific convoy, like, "Oh, this is the convoy of
[00:14:42] so-and-so minister or so-and-so director." No, it is clear.
[00:14:46] I gave you the example of Alouk station, how it happened exactly.
[00:14:50] And we went through secondary roads, and there were some problems in Ras Al-Ain
[00:14:53] and so on. By God, the convoy length was about 100 cars, but it was not
[00:14:57] organizations, there were people, there were civilians, there was
[00:15:03] the self-administration, there was from the governorate, there was from the presidency envoy who
[00:15:06] also sent a delegation to manage political affairs. Everyone came with
[00:15:11] the opening. Okay, regarding cooperation with the Ministry
[00:15:14] of Transport, God willing, we will work on the issue
[00:15:17] of mechanisms, and we are already preparing new governance
[00:15:21] for the issue of licensing. I mentioned electric cars, but we now have an infrastructure
[00:15:25] that can be relied upon, and modern cars reduce the issue
[00:15:28] of reliance on energy. The issue of promises regarding fuels,
[00:15:32] I don't know, maybe the honorable representative was not present or was distracted when
[00:15:36] he intervened in the matter when we talked about this, the professor who mentioned
[00:15:39] the issue of promises that 150, my brother, I just mentioned
[00:15:43] that we were saying 150, we are not importing diesel
[00:15:46] and gasoline. At one stage, we were importing crude oil and refining it
[00:15:49] in Baniyas without importing derivatives. This
[00:15:53] stage passed us. This is when we announced that we are not doing gasoline diesel. Perhaps the honorable
[00:15:56] member was not present or was distracted.
[00:16:00] our need was 15,000 because the eastern
[00:16:03] region, Al-Hasakah and east of the Euphrates, was not taking its derivatives from
[00:16:06] us, and a large part of the derivatives from the 15,000
[00:16:10] was enough. There was not that huge number of
[00:16:14] from the refinery was sufficient for our needs. After a while, the need increased, and we started
[00:16:18] importing derivatives. We started importing almost 1 ton
[00:16:21] per day. After a while, of course, we don't import 1, meaning an average of 1000
[00:16:24] tons per day. After a while, we started importing more, and then more, until
[00:16:28] the amount of need increased to 30,000 barrels per
[00:16:33] The issue of
[00:16:37] separating ministries is a legislative matter for the President
[00:16:40] and the People's Assembly to decide
[00:16:45] models. Some of them adopt three ministries: water, electricity,
[00:16:48] etc. In Germany, the Ministry of Economy
[00:16:52] and Energy and Economy, they even added Economy, Trade, and Industry
[00:16:55] within it. And it is known that Germany is one of the largest industrial
[00:16:59] countries and a global leader in energy, Siemens, and so on. So it already
[00:17:03] exists for water, electricity, and oil derivatives, meaning
[00:17:06] oil, in addition to industry. This
[00:17:10] is legislation. We are the decision-makers in this matter. Homs
[00:17:14] refinery is on the plan to be
[00:17:17] Al-Fardjlus and water to be drawn from Aleppo to Idlib. God willing, I will follow up
[00:17:21] on the project, where it is, and how we can put it, and at what stage
[00:17:24] it can be among the priorities of the Ministry.
[00:17:27] Thank you, colleague Tamam. If
[00:17:29] you allow us, sir, there is one point we overlooked: the Ghab Plain. The dams in
[00:17:33] the Ghab Plain are included in the projects studied by our
[00:17:38] And also, they were raised within the investment budgets. If they are approved,
[00:17:42] God willing, we will start implementing them. If they are postponed for approval by the Ministry of Finance,
[00:17:45] they will be among our priorities as
[00:17:49] well. Peace be upon you all, Your Excellency,
[00:17:52] the Minister. First, there is a question that my colleague did not answer.
[00:17:56] He mentioned the issue of price control. I second his words, but
[00:18:00] my question is not about that. My question relates to the strategic
[00:18:03] rather than the tactical issue. My colleagues, may God reward them,
[00:18:06] talked a lot about the current situation. You talked
[00:18:10] about more than one slide about
[00:18:13] the strategic plan, such a strategic plan. But if I
[00:18:17] tried to read the strategic
[00:18:20] management. A strategic plan needs strategic
[00:18:23] objectives, and below them smart objectives. Then
[00:18:27] these objectives need a timeline for a time
[00:18:31] program. Then how will this time program be achieved if it is, for example, within three
[00:18:34] months or six months? This should all be available on the ministry's
[00:18:38] website for transparency for people to read. Then after that,
[00:18:42] there should be, for example, after six months, we implemented this and did not implement this. There are
[00:18:46] justifications. There are justifications.
[00:18:49] If this is done, we ask you, if
[00:18:53] matter be implemented on the ministry's website. This will greatly reduce
[00:18:57] people's anger. When people see the baseline,
[00:19:00] then the plan, then the objectives, then the smart objectives,
[00:19:04] then the timeline, then what was implemented.
[00:19:07] These five levels, and you are more knowledgeable in management, will make people
[00:19:11] feel comfortable and
[00:19:14] I mean, colleague Huda
[00:19:17] Atassi. Peace be upon you. Thank you, Your Excellency,
[00:19:21] the Minister, for the clarifications. Frankly, all the questions I
[00:19:24] wrote have been asked and answered. Thank you.
[00:19:27] Colleague Khalil Issa
[00:19:30] Al-Kan'ou
[00:19:39] Colleague Osama Al-Na'ous. Peace be upon you and God's mercy
[00:19:43] and blessings.
[00:19:46] Mr. President, Your Excellency, the Minister mentioned
[00:19:49] several development and economic projects in
[00:19:53] that. However, he did not mention any development or
[00:19:57] economic project, not even a water station in Raqqa
[00:19:59] governorate. And it is known
[00:20:03] that in most of the Abyad region, north of
[00:20:06] Raqqa, in the Zaidi region, east of the Silouk sub-district, dozens
[00:20:10] of villages, even hundreds of villages,
[00:20:13] have abandoned their villages and lands due to lack of water,
[00:20:16] and the reason is that the Al-Hisha water
[00:20:20] pumping station on one of the irrigation
[00:20:22] canals of the Euphrates River
[00:20:25] is out of order. It only needs maintenance
[00:20:27] to return people to their lands, villages, and homes.
[00:20:31] May God reward you with all goodness.
[00:20:34] Colleague Osama Al-Na'ous. Your Excellency, the Minister, I changed
[00:20:39] my intervention due to inaccurate information mentioned
[00:20:42] during the presentation, which was about
[00:20:44] the price of water in the Syrian Arab Republic, which is seven
[00:20:48] pounds. We, in the Aleppo countryside, Al-Bab region, which has a population of
[00:20:52] more than one million people, pay the equivalent of
[00:20:55] 2700 pounds for the price of one
[00:20:58] cubic meter of water, and we pay for electricity
[00:21:02] almost 1800 pounds without any
[00:21:05] tariffs. Therefore, from this platform, I demand
[00:21:10] to equalize the collection of water and electricity in the Al-Bab
[00:21:13] region immediately with the Syrian Arab Republic, as we are part of it
[00:21:16] and not another country. The second point is the issue of fuel
[00:21:20] support at a price of 115 pounds. If it is from
[00:21:23] primitive refineries,
[00:21:27] of a barrel is 200 dollars. We, in the Al-Bab
[00:21:30] region, used to buy
[00:21:33] a barrel of fuel for 70 dollars, so its cost
[00:21:36] is 70 dollars, and it is locally
[00:21:39] produced. So now it can be the same cost. Why this price and the large
[00:21:43] difference? Thank you. Colleague.
[00:21:47] Ma'm. Bishara. Your Excellency,
[00:21:50] the Minister, can we move from the idea of supporting
[00:21:54] diesel in general to supporting the cost of transportation for
[00:21:58] groups that have no alternative, especially school
[00:22:02] and university students,
[00:22:05] rural areas, where thousands
[00:22:08] daily transportation to the city, and any increase in transportation fees
[00:22:12] practically turns into an additional deduction from the family's income and
[00:22:16] an obstacle to education and work? Therefore, can there be a special
[00:22:20] fund to support public transportation
[00:22:23] diesel to the routes that serve students, employees,
[00:22:26] and rural residents? Thank you.
[00:22:29] Colleague Jaafar Al-Sadiq
[00:22:30] Tahan.
[00:22:33] Peace be upon you. Your Excellency, the Minister, has
[00:22:37] the assets of the Syrian Petroleum Company been inventoried
[00:22:40] and re-evaluated, and re-handed over to
[00:22:44] the Syrian Holding Company? And what are the oversight
[00:22:48] mechanisms in the company?
[00:22:51] human resources? The second question:
[00:22:54] Has the Azaz region been included
[00:22:57] in the upcoming irrigation plans, knowing that
[00:23:00] its soil is the best and highest
[00:23:03] in terms of moisture retention? Thank you.
[00:23:07] Thank you to the colleagues, Mr. Minister. Please
[00:23:09] proceed.
[00:23:13] Thank you. Regarding
[00:23:15] the strategic plans of the Ministry,
[00:23:21] a new ministry, meaning it is a collection of ministries, as
[00:23:25] we mentioned. So we worked on the issue of digital transformation and on the energy portal,
[00:23:28] which is the energy services portal, and we worked on the official website of the Ministry.
[00:23:31] It was launched a long time ago, and it is still in the experimental
[00:23:35] stage. God willing, we will take this
[00:23:38] recommendation into consideration, and these plans will be placed on the official
[00:23:41] website of the Ministry. Regarding Raqqa, we have some projects. I did not mention every governorate,
[00:23:45] brothers, there are many projects
[00:23:49] related to electricity and water
[00:23:52] in every governorate. They were submitted for the 2027 investment
[00:23:57] allow to mention them all. For example, in Raqqa, we have the Rusafa and Suhul
[00:24:01] Al-Jarnib project. Also, we have a station that was
[00:24:04] previously bombed, the Baligh station. We have also
[00:24:08] included it in the 2027 plan. All of these are included in the
[00:24:11] investment plan for 2027, but the time does not
[00:24:15] allow me to mention all our projects that we submitted for
[00:24:18] 2027 during an hour or
[00:24:22] two presentations. Regarding water and electricity in Aleppo,
[00:24:26] it is truly the right of the brothers who demanded
[00:24:30] equality. Today, electricity in Idlib governorate
[00:24:33] and the northern Aleppo countryside is still more expensive than in other
[00:24:37] governorates.
[00:24:39] It is the same as the second tariff of Syrian electricity, but they do not have a subsidized tariff.
[00:24:43] So, God willing, we have an upcoming session
[00:24:45] to study the existing tariff in this region, whether it is for
[00:24:49] electricity or water. The decision on this
[00:24:53] is primarily because there are private companies involved. Private companies are
[00:24:57] buying electricity. We need to discuss with the Ministry of Finance to secure
[00:25:01] the loss that will result from reducing it. God willing, we will take steps
[00:25:04] to do this in the coming period.
[00:25:06] Of course, we will finalize it with the Ministry of Finance so that we can secure
[00:25:10] this subsidized tariff from the Ministry
[00:25:14] of Finance. We have the subsidized fuel price
[00:25:18] and its relationship with
[00:25:21] previously subsidized oil derivatives that were priced at
[00:25:25] 70 dollars from the days of Tarhin and others. Today,
[00:25:28] a barrel of diesel, a barrel of crude
[00:25:31] oil, was 67 dollars. Today, a barrel of crude
[00:25:34] oil is 104 dollars. Yesterday, meaning today, the markets are closed. Brent will open
[00:25:38] tomorrow. So you have a big difference between crude oil prices previously
[00:25:42] and crude oil prices today. Also, regarding the Syrian Petroleum Company,
[00:25:46] I mentioned that it is a company. We can give you details, or I think the brothers, if
[00:25:49] they just put in a little effort and reviewed
[00:25:53] the recent decrees, the decrees establishing the Syrian
[00:25:56] Petroleum Company regulated the relationship completely. We have two decrees:
[00:25:59] a decree establishing the Syrian Petroleum Company and a
[00:26:02] decree forming the board of directors of the Petroleum
[00:26:05] Company. It doesn't require much effort to read
[00:26:08] the decrees. The details of the tasks, where each one's role is, what
[00:26:14] the Ministry are clear and detailed within
[00:26:16] the decrees issued by His Excellency the President. Regarding
[00:26:20] Azaz,
[00:26:25] the Ministry of Water, we will discuss where the projects are, what
[00:26:30] the region, if there are any studied projects to put them on our priorities, or if it is necessary
[00:26:33] to study projects to include them in
[00:26:39] the coming years, God willing. Thank you.
[00:26:43] Colleague Ahmed, please allow us. Regarding public transportation, it is
[00:26:47] also the same issue we were talking about earlier, supporting
[00:26:50] industry, agriculture, and transportation. I mean, we don't have a problem
[00:26:54] with the Ministry
[00:26:57] of Transportation going and asking for subsidized
[00:27:00] fuel or other things. So, the Ministry of Finance
[00:27:03] is the difference in support between us and them, because, as we mentioned, we
[00:27:06] fear that if we want to support a specific segment, everyone
[00:27:09] will ask for it. Transportation will ask, industry will ask, we will give certain subsidized diesel,
[00:27:13] which will lead to the spread of corruption in a situation where the
[00:27:17] bus owner doesn't consume 100 liters, but sells 50 and consumes 50,
[00:27:20] because its price is subsidized, so we enter the maze of the black market
[00:27:24] and subsidies. So, we can use GPS. We can
[00:27:27] work on the issue that the Ministry of Transportation arranges the matter. We will see what is required from
[00:27:31] our side and provide it to them, God willing. Colleague Ahmed Muhammad
[00:27:35] Al-Hariri. In
[00:27:38] the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Your Excellency the Minister, as
[00:27:41] you know, corruption devours development.
[00:27:44] Information has been received that there
[00:27:47] are two lines for smuggling oil
[00:27:51] from one of the Rumeilan fields towards northern
[00:27:54] Iraq. I consider this information as a
[00:27:58] report and notification to your Excellency and to the Central
[00:28:01] Control and Inspection Agency. Thank you.
[00:28:05] Colleague Muhammad Saadi Sukkari.
[00:28:06] A
[00:28:09] Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Your
[00:28:12] Excellency the Minister. As you mentioned in
[00:28:16] your presentation at the beginning of the session,
[00:28:19] there will be a group of electrical
[00:28:22] refineries to
[00:28:25] be put into operation with a production capacity
[00:28:29] of 35 barrels per day.
[00:28:33] The question is, what is the expected period for these
[00:28:36] refineries to come into operation?
[00:28:39] In addition, will there be a direct
[00:28:42] contract or will there be a call for bids?
[00:28:46] How will it be done? What are the qualification
[00:28:50] conditions? Is there an infrastructure,
[00:28:53] electricity? Is there an infrastructure for these refineries?
[00:28:57] And how will the operating costs be calculated?
[00:29:00] And who will monitor the quantities of input and the quantities
[00:29:04] of output derivatives? Thank you. Colleague
[00:29:07] Hamza Qabalan.
[00:29:10] Your Excellency the Minister, through my follow-up with the fuel committees in
[00:29:14] Homs governorate,
[00:29:16] they informed me that there is no monthly,
[00:29:20] annual, or daily report regarding fuel. And through
[00:29:23] their special work, they were able,
[00:29:26] with a simple tour and manual reports,
[00:29:29] to find that, for example, the water
[00:29:32] sector, after they verified its needs,
[00:29:35] the need for diesel decreased from 90,000
[00:29:39] liters per month to 500,000 liters of diesel.
[00:29:43] And regarding transportation, for example, in
[00:29:46] Homs, the monthly need for transportation,
[00:29:49] and all of them have GPS installed from the beginning, but it seems that it is not
[00:29:53] fully activated, is 3,300,000
[00:29:56] liters of diesel for
[00:29:59] 3,600
[00:30:01] buses. Perhaps if there was a monthly
[00:30:04] and perhaps daily report, taking into account the harvest, crises, and
[00:30:08] so on, we could reduce the waste in the public sector, let alone
[00:30:11] the private sector. Thank you. Colleague Mustafa
[00:30:14] Saqr. Thank you, Mr.
[00:30:17] Speaker. Your Excellency the Minister, I will talk
[00:30:21] about the industrial sector because I am close to it, and there are several questions,
[00:30:25] several questions about the current policy. If you could move the mic a little closer,
[00:30:29] and there are several questions about the current
[00:30:32] policy followed by the electricity company in purchasing surplus
[00:30:35] electricity from industrial establishments. There is a big
[00:30:39] difference. The surplus for the electricity
[00:30:43] company is 2 euro cents, or 2.3 US
[00:30:46] cents, and the estimated
[00:30:49] consumption price is 14 cents.
[00:30:52] That is about six times.
[00:30:56] Many countries this price.