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00:00:00Also, even crude oil will be expensive at these prices. God willing, things will
00:00:03move towards solutions for supply
00:00:07routes and we can secure the material at these prices.
00:00:11its budget is, what its arrangements are, and its relationship with The statements
00:00:14with the company and production we mentioned earlier
00:00:20that you issue a decision regarding
00:00:22God willing, during our next meeting with
00:00:22Therefore, I will reconfirm it now. At one point, salaries, ah, regarding salaries. Ah, this is another issue. I just mentioned some
00:00:26brothers who might be getting distracted because the
00:00:27projects exist in session is long, Mr. President. I mentioned that we have the workers' law
00:00:31applied to the wage system in the state. There are
00:00:36cars, so our production experience contracts that we are talking about.
00:00:37this means that the price We brought an engineer from outside, we brought an our implementation plan oil expert, we brought engineers. in
00:00:40We gave them some wages, we employed them according to law
00:00:4353, which was in force in the north for some employees to
00:00:46give them. But the origin of salaries in the Syrian
00:00:49Petroleum Company, the Syrian Electricity Company, and the Syrian
00:00:52Mining Company is still the
00:00:55day. wage law adopted within the Syrian state. So some salaries of some engineers became
00:01:00loose. The company president spoke to me
00:01:06how 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
00:01:07countries, I looked at many companies like HSK, Conoco,
00:01:09and others and UC started to attract
00:01:13engineers within the company,
00:01:15and employees who come daily from so they will lose their cadres. So we started giving them some bonuses
00:01:18of students and employees rely on and privileges that the professor mentioned, that our vision
00:01:22is, I mean, when he mentioned that we will give or are
00:01:24for completing this giving 4000 to some experts, in addition, this is the company's vision one
00:01:28day to reach this stage. Wages and salaries have not yet
00:01:33and allocate sufficient quantities of adopted a wage system for the company, but rather bonuses and incentives
00:01:35Thank you. for some employees. In our ministry, centrally, we attracted some
00:01:40shut 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
00:01:43renewable energy cards. We gave him an experience contract. I mean, you come and say that
00:01:47the Ministry of Energy is at 1000 dollars and 1500 dollars. No, it's not like that.
00:01:50We are still under the workers' law, the wage law
00:01:53adopted within the workers' law in the Ministry of Administrative Development. So
00:01:57this is the issue. God willing, we will reach a stage where we give salaries and wages. Like
00:02:01Water Resources Department. these,
00:02:01And what is its policy regarding like salaries for experience contracts, like salaries that have seen
00:02:05a qualitative improvement
00:02:06that we do not import a liter of in their wages and salaries. We don't have the ability,
00:02:08diesel nor a liter of I mean, we can't give to electricity. We don't have the ability now
00:02:11to give them these wages. If we say electricity is losing 1 billion and 650 million,
00:02:15there is no ability to give them these wages and salaries. We can
00:02:19give them like health, which saw a qualitative increase, and higher education
00:02:22and education and experience contracts that
00:02:25we have, and the People's Assembly and all salaries whose wages became good. We will be able
00:02:30parties, that agrees on sudden increase to reach. In wages
00:02:31first, our Ministry is to such levels, God willing, we will reach them, God
00:02:33willing.
00:02:38I answered the female engineers, but you were working on the phone.
00:02:43plan now, you are an expert in
00:02:44could have been funded, You were talking on the phone, a call, and I was answering the question you answered that you asked. Okay,
00:02:48the issue of preventing well drilling in
00:02:51since it will run on water, preventing well drilling in water. Actually,
00:02:53because we have a problem with groundwater,
00:02:56we have 50,000 random wells in one area. The initial reading. We
00:03:00are counting them. This led to the depletion of
00:03:03groundwater and we have drought in the region. So if we open
00:03:07budgets, but the time does not the issue of well drilling in all water basins, the basins in
00:03:11Syria, it will lead to severe drought
00:03:16you please, that this and today Daraa is facing a problem with drinking water because
00:03:18it was allowed, or not allowed, random wells were dug there.
00:03:22Therefore, it is a policy made to preserve
00:03:25groundwater to preserve
00:03:26drinking water.
00:03:40Colleague, Mr. Minister, regarding colleague Yasser's question about government
00:03:44and the governorate. So it appears on austerity.
00:03:46the media, it didn't appear, of course, but it appears on Excuse me, regarding the
00:03:49meters, I have these on the left. I noticed that we talked about the meters because
00:03:52he mentioned smart meters. We talked about them. The issue of cars and austerity
00:03:56for the ministry we have,
00:03:59among the austerity measures, are salaries and wages.
00:04:02Is there an urgent plan to address this I just mentioned our salaries and wages
00:04:04winter, or will it be flooded as in in the ministry very clearly. I mean, the
00:04:06salary schedule, go ask for it from the Ministry of Finance. These are the salaries applied
00:04:10in the Ministry of Energy. There is nothing, I mean, above the roofs
00:04:16the 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
00:04:19and salary system adopted in our Ministry of Energy and its affiliated
00:04:22companies, by God, a few days ago, Professor Omar Shakhrouq, the head of the Electricity
00:04:25Company, told me, "Our engineers are starting to leave." Our salaries,
00:04:29I mean, he didn't say, "I went to the Euphrates Dam Foundation and found
00:04:3311 engineers there." I visited it. All of them are on the verge of their fifties, on the verge of
00:04:38local 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.
00:04:40These are the salaries you are giving. The employee is not coming.
00:04:44Therefore, these are the salaries and wages.
00:04:46their car and came to He says regarding austerity and exaggeration in the matter, I am with
00:04:49austerity, and I sent a letter to the Ministry of Energy
00:04:52to reduce fuel expenses
00:04:56in the world do not exceed and reduce operations, and this may even
00:05:00affect the quality of services one day. But today, if I say I want to introduce three
00:05:03new oil products, diesel,
00:05:05and burdens on in the market, it requires dozens of tours from the field
00:05:08energy services department. How can I be austere with diesel for him? So he will have to take
00:05:12instead of one or two tours last time, he will take ten tours now to prevent fraud
00:05:15and monopolization and selling, and so on. So this is a necessary
00:05:19work that is required of us. We cannot reduce expenses on it. And there are administrative
00:05:23and other works that we reduce as much as possible. And our
00:05:26expenses as a ministry are available. Anyone who wants to see
00:05:29them is most welcome. We will show them to you. Administrative expenses
00:05:33and salaries and wages and cars and expenses
00:05:36are ready, an open book for all of you. Welcome.
00:05:39Comrade Husam Adnan
00:05:42Hamdan Hello, Your Excellency, the Minister.
00:05:45First, thank you for the briefing today. The hearing session. I
00:05:49have a basic question. The first question is, in light of the government's
00:05:52inability to meet the demands of the public today to lower prices, especially since
00:05:56the price increase came with the beginning of winter
00:05:59and with the beginning of the academic year. I mean, the Syrian citizen today has
00:06:03two problems with the beginning of the academic year: high costs
00:06:06and the beginning of winter. In light of the government's inability, is it possible to introduce
00:06:10tax exemptions for alternative energy? I mean, solar energy today, even
00:06:14batteries. If there are tax exemptions, the Syrian citizen
00:06:18can buy four or five panels and install them, and thus reduce his electricity
00:06:21consumption. Second, I say that
00:06:25something should be put in place about the government austerity plan. It should
00:06:29be announced, and the honorable representative was mentioning
00:06:32the issue of convoys, ministerial
00:06:35convoys, and officials' convoys. I see that this matter
00:06:38is somewhat provocative to the public, and I hope that this matter will end.
00:06:43The third and final intervention: Is it possible to have cooperation between
00:06:46the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Energy? Today, the transport
00:06:49vehicles consume a
00:06:51the diesel, frankly, they are dilapidated and worn out.
00:06:55Is it possible to replace them with energy-efficient
00:06:57transport vehicles? Frankly, even this microbus
00:07:00is humiliating for the Syrian citizen in terms of entry and exit
00:07:03from it.
00:07:07Colleague Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Abdullah
00:07:09The year began
00:07:13with promises and statements announced
00:07:20gasoline. Then came
00:07:24the return of Al-Jazeera to the Syrian state,
00:07:27and the good tidings and promises
00:07:30began, only to find ourselves
00:07:33facing a crisis of fuel shortage,
00:07:37leading to a large,
00:07:41in prices. This matter left the
00:07:45citizen in constant confusion,
00:07:48always seeing solutions as his responsibility,
00:07:51without seeing the state directly bearing this responsibility.
00:07:54This deficit
00:07:56and it can be estimated
00:08:00at 150 to 200 million dollars
00:08:03monthly, and for a temporary period, as the citizen was promised
00:08:07with better economic methods.
00:08:10Why don't we see clear economic solutions?
00:08:13The citizen endured electricity and remained silent
00:08:17about it, only to find himself facing
00:08:20oil and oil derivatives, and he does not know
00:08:23where he will go in the next stage.
00:08:26Therefore,
00:08:32colleague Abdul Fattah Obaid.
00:08:35Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings. Regarding the water
00:08:38crisis in the Ghab Plain, 500 million cubic meters, according to the Ghab
00:08:42Development Authority, go to the Mediterranean Sea. Of course, there are three
00:08:46dams in the Ghab Plain: Afamia, Qastoun, and Zayzun, which need
00:08:49repair or maintenance. I mean, the crisis
00:08:53caused a loss of 8600
00:08:55tons of wheat, 40,000
00:08:59dunams of land submerged in water,
00:09:02and the summer in the Ghab Plain is a desert without water.
00:09:06So the question is, is there a plan in
00:09:09case of inability to repair?
00:09:16last year? The second point is that the Minister mentioned that 250
00:09:19million dollars are provided to the Ministry of Finance, and all
00:09:22sectors are losing at the Ministry of Energy.
00:09:26How are you providing these 250 million to the Ministry of Finance? May God reward you,
00:09:29Your Excellency, the Minister. Colleague Muhammad Walid
00:09:32Al-Bakir. Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings, Mr. President,
00:09:36colleagues, Your Excellency, the Minister. Peace be upon you and God's mercy
00:09:39and blessings, Your Excellency, the Minister. May God grant you strength. You are carrying three
00:09:43ministries, and I honestly call for the separation of these ministries because each ministry
00:09:47needs a great deal of effort, especially the issue of water.
00:09:50I mean, it is partially related to energy, but
00:09:54its primary relationship is with water. And I, in turn, direct this to the Speaker
00:09:57of the People's Assembly, that the water sector be part of
00:10:01the Agriculture and Food Security Committee because its relationship is organic
00:10:04and essential to agriculture, not to energy. The other question,
00:10:08Your Excellency, the Minister, I mean, our meeting here
00:10:11is because of the recent fuel crisis
00:10:14and its costs
00:10:17the Syrian people. I join my voice to that of Dr. Nawwar Najm, meaning we
00:10:21should not burden the citizen
00:10:25with all the crises that occur as a result of the prevailing
00:10:28global situation. Therefore, it would have
00:10:32been better to keep diesel as
00:10:35it is because it has links to agriculture and transport,
00:10:39and there is no objection to a
00:10:43slight or gradual increase in gasoline, for example. Its impact
00:10:47on the living standards of citizens would have been
00:10:50less.
00:11:10Colleague Abdel Karim Ahmed
00:11:12Barakat
00:11:14May God bless you, Your Excellency, the Minister, and may God reward you with all goodness.
00:11:18There is a project to draw water from the Euphrates
00:11:21River through a canal passing from Aleppo to its western countryside
00:11:25to Idlib. This
00:11:27since the beginning of the revolution, as
00:11:31it reached the village of Sheikh Ali in the western Aleppo
00:11:34countryside. This project
00:11:36serves a large segment of farmers and has
00:11:40a very important
00:11:44significance for farmers.
00:11:46The question is, what is the timetable
00:11:49project? And may God reward you with all
00:11:51goodness.
00:11:55Mr. Minister, please.
00:12:00First, we are reviewing the questions. There is a point I overlooked, the view
00:12:04of the hearing session that one of
00:12:07the honorable representatives mentioned. In fact, it is an important session
00:12:11to highlight our challenges and the problems
00:12:14within the energy sector. We are talking as the Ministry of Energy
00:12:18to inform you about the strategic
00:12:22plans and the interim plans that we are working on, so that you can be a help to us in
00:12:25the matter of legislation and in conveying
00:12:29the voice of the Syrian people behind you. It is certain
00:12:32that you represent this people, through whom
00:12:35you can convey their concerns, and we hear about them more closely. So the session is
00:12:39very positive, God willing. As for
00:12:42the issue of tax exemptions, God willing, this issue is with
00:12:45customs, the ports and customs authority. God willing, we will send them a letter requesting
00:12:49tax exemptions. Of course, there is a committee, not a committee
00:12:52from several
00:12:55exemptions, and this is one of the options
00:12:59for relying on renewable energy.
00:13:01Regarding the issue you mentioned again, the issue
00:13:04of convoys, cars, austerity, and so
00:13:08on. This is sometimes also social media, we go back to the same
00:13:11issue. I remember the day we went to open the Alouk station
00:13:15in Al-Hasakah. I don't know if any of the honorable representatives from
00:13:19Al-Hasakah were with us. I think they were
00:13:22there. I went with two cars.
00:13:25His car and a car with his escort and the media
00:13:28and the young people. And I was in my car with the assistant, the director
00:13:32of the water institution, and so on. But when we arrived at Alouk station, there were perhaps 200
00:13:36cars. I, as a minister, went with two cars,
00:13:39my private car and an escort car with the media. We went in
00:13:43one car, so the cars were already full. All the cars
00:13:46were full. Everyone here is luxurious. Each one went with his assistant. The director
00:13:49of the General Organization for Drinking Water came with us. Okay, the director of ceremonies was with us.
00:13:53I mean, it wasn't like a driver took us or anything. But what happened was
00:13:56that there was the director of water in the region
00:14:00and the honorable representatives and the Red Cross were there
00:14:03and UNICEF and security
00:14:06and the official of the region
00:14:11the media, not the same cars. There is a problem, meaning if
00:14:14it appears on the media, yes, that is a convoy, and many honorable
00:14:18representatives and ministers were wronged in this matter, to be honest. I mean, to clear my conscience, they go, and a minister
00:14:22has one car. One of the ministers told me, "I went with my car, imagine. I have ten cars, brother."
00:14:26By God, it was one car. So he imagined that there were some people who were with him, for example,
00:14:30from this region, so it appears. This matter has some exaggeration. I am not saying
00:14:33that there should not be austerity. There must be a reduction in administrative
00:14:39it should not be viewed as a specific convoy, like, "Oh, this is the convoy of
00:14:42so-and-so minister or so-and-so director." No, it is clear.
00:14:46I gave you the example of Alouk station, how it happened exactly.
00:14:50And we went through secondary roads, and there were some problems in Ras Al-Ain
00:14:53and so on. By God, the convoy length was about 100 cars, but it was not
00:14:57organizations, there were people, there were civilians, there was
00:15:03the self-administration, there was from the governorate, there was from the presidency envoy who
00:15:06also sent a delegation to manage political affairs. Everyone came with
00:15:11the opening. Okay, regarding cooperation with the Ministry
00:15:14of Transport, God willing, we will work on the issue
00:15:17of mechanisms, and we are already preparing new governance
00:15:21for the issue of licensing. I mentioned electric cars, but we now have an infrastructure
00:15:25that can be relied upon, and modern cars reduce the issue
00:15:28of reliance on energy. The issue of promises regarding fuels,
00:15:32I don't know, maybe the honorable representative was not present or was distracted when
00:15:36he intervened in the matter when we talked about this, the professor who mentioned
00:15:39the issue of promises that 150, my brother, I just mentioned
00:15:43that we were saying 150, we are not importing diesel
00:15:46and gasoline. At one stage, we were importing crude oil and refining it
00:15:49in Baniyas without importing derivatives. This
00:15:53stage passed us. This is when we announced that we are not doing gasoline diesel. Perhaps the honorable
00:15:56member was not present or was distracted.
00:16:00our need was 15,000 because the eastern
00:16:03region, Al-Hasakah and east of the Euphrates, was not taking its derivatives from
00:16:06us, and a large part of the derivatives from the 15,000
00:16:10was enough. There was not that huge number of
00:16:14from the refinery was sufficient for our needs. After a while, the need increased, and we started
00:16:18importing derivatives. We started importing almost 1 ton
00:16:21per day. After a while, of course, we don't import 1, meaning an average of 1000
00:16:24tons per day. After a while, we started importing more, and then more, until
00:16:28the amount of need increased to 30,000 barrels per
00:16:33The issue of
00:16:37separating ministries is a legislative matter for the President
00:16:40and the People's Assembly to decide
00:16:45models. Some of them adopt three ministries: water, electricity,
00:16:48etc. In Germany, the Ministry of Economy
00:16:52and Energy and Economy, they even added Economy, Trade, and Industry
00:16:55within it. And it is known that Germany is one of the largest industrial
00:16:59countries and a global leader in energy, Siemens, and so on. So it already
00:17:03exists for water, electricity, and oil derivatives, meaning
00:17:06oil, in addition to industry. This
00:17:10is legislation. We are the decision-makers in this matter. Homs
00:17:14refinery is on the plan to be
00:17:17Al-Fardjlus and water to be drawn from Aleppo to Idlib. God willing, I will follow up
00:17:21on the project, where it is, and how we can put it, and at what stage
00:17:24it can be among the priorities of the Ministry.
00:17:27Thank you, colleague Tamam. If
00:17:29you allow us, sir, there is one point we overlooked: the Ghab Plain. The dams in
00:17:33the Ghab Plain are included in the projects studied by our
00:17:38And also, they were raised within the investment budgets. If they are approved,
00:17:42God willing, we will start implementing them. If they are postponed for approval by the Ministry of Finance,
00:17:45they will be among our priorities as
00:17:49well. Peace be upon you all, Your Excellency,
00:17:52the Minister. First, there is a question that my colleague did not answer.
00:17:56He mentioned the issue of price control. I second his words, but
00:18:00my question is not about that. My question relates to the strategic
00:18:03rather than the tactical issue. My colleagues, may God reward them,
00:18:06talked a lot about the current situation. You talked
00:18:10about more than one slide about
00:18:13the strategic plan, such a strategic plan. But if I
00:18:17tried to read the strategic
00:18:20management. A strategic plan needs strategic
00:18:23objectives, and below them smart objectives. Then
00:18:27these objectives need a timeline for a time
00:18:31program. Then how will this time program be achieved if it is, for example, within three
00:18:34months or six months? This should all be available on the ministry's
00:18:38website for transparency for people to read. Then after that,
00:18:42there should be, for example, after six months, we implemented this and did not implement this. There are
00:18:46justifications. There are justifications.
00:18:49If this is done, we ask you, if
00:18:53matter be implemented on the ministry's website. This will greatly reduce
00:18:57people's anger. When people see the baseline,
00:19:00then the plan, then the objectives, then the smart objectives,
00:19:04then the timeline, then what was implemented.
00:19:07These five levels, and you are more knowledgeable in management, will make people
00:19:11feel comfortable and
00:19:14I mean, colleague Huda
00:19:17Atassi. Peace be upon you. Thank you, Your Excellency,
00:19:21the Minister, for the clarifications. Frankly, all the questions I
00:19:24wrote have been asked and answered. Thank you.
00:19:27Colleague Khalil Issa
00:19:30Al-Kan'ou
00:19:39Colleague Osama Al-Na'ous. Peace be upon you and God's mercy
00:19:43and blessings.
00:19:46Mr. President, Your Excellency, the Minister mentioned
00:19:49several development and economic projects in
00:19:53that. However, he did not mention any development or
00:19:57economic project, not even a water station in Raqqa
00:19:59governorate. And it is known
00:20:03that in most of the Abyad region, north of
00:20:06Raqqa, in the Zaidi region, east of the Silouk sub-district, dozens
00:20:10of villages, even hundreds of villages,
00:20:13have abandoned their villages and lands due to lack of water,
00:20:16and the reason is that the Al-Hisha water
00:20:20pumping station on one of the irrigation
00:20:22canals of the Euphrates River
00:20:25is out of order. It only needs maintenance
00:20:27to return people to their lands, villages, and homes.
00:20:31May God reward you with all goodness.
00:20:34Colleague Osama Al-Na'ous. Your Excellency, the Minister, I changed
00:20:39my intervention due to inaccurate information mentioned
00:20:42during the presentation, which was about
00:20:44the price of water in the Syrian Arab Republic, which is seven
00:20:48pounds. We, in the Aleppo countryside, Al-Bab region, which has a population of
00:20:52more than one million people, pay the equivalent of
00:20:552700 pounds for the price of one
00:20:58cubic meter of water, and we pay for electricity
00:21:02almost 1800 pounds without any
00:21:05tariffs. Therefore, from this platform, I demand
00:21:10to equalize the collection of water and electricity in the Al-Bab
00:21:13region immediately with the Syrian Arab Republic, as we are part of it
00:21:16and not another country. The second point is the issue of fuel
00:21:20support at a price of 115 pounds. If it is from
00:21:23primitive refineries,
00:21:27of a barrel is 200 dollars. We, in the Al-Bab
00:21:30region, used to buy
00:21:33a barrel of fuel for 70 dollars, so its cost
00:21:36is 70 dollars, and it is locally
00:21:39produced. So now it can be the same cost. Why this price and the large
00:21:43difference? Thank you. Colleague.
00:21:47Ma'm. Bishara. Your Excellency,
00:21:50the Minister, can we move from the idea of supporting
00:21:54diesel in general to supporting the cost of transportation for
00:21:58groups that have no alternative, especially school
00:22:02and university students,
00:22:05rural areas, where thousands
00:22:08daily transportation to the city, and any increase in transportation fees
00:22:12practically turns into an additional deduction from the family's income and
00:22:16an obstacle to education and work? Therefore, can there be a special
00:22:20fund to support public transportation
00:22:23diesel to the routes that serve students, employees,
00:22:26and rural residents? Thank you.
00:22:29Colleague Jaafar Al-Sadiq
00:22:30Tahan.
00:22:33Peace be upon you. Your Excellency, the Minister, has
00:22:37the assets of the Syrian Petroleum Company been inventoried
00:22:40and re-evaluated, and re-handed over to
00:22:44the Syrian Holding Company? And what are the oversight
00:22:48mechanisms in the company?
00:22:51human resources? The second question:
00:22:54Has the Azaz region been included
00:22:57in the upcoming irrigation plans, knowing that
00:23:00its soil is the best and highest
00:23:03in terms of moisture retention? Thank you.
00:23:07Thank you to the colleagues, Mr. Minister. Please
00:23:09proceed.
00:23:13Thank you. Regarding
00:23:15the strategic plans of the Ministry,
00:23:21a new ministry, meaning it is a collection of ministries, as
00:23:25we mentioned. So we worked on the issue of digital transformation and on the energy portal,
00:23:28which is the energy services portal, and we worked on the official website of the Ministry.
00:23:31It was launched a long time ago, and it is still in the experimental
00:23:35stage. God willing, we will take this
00:23:38recommendation into consideration, and these plans will be placed on the official
00:23:41website of the Ministry. Regarding Raqqa, we have some projects. I did not mention every governorate,
00:23:45brothers, there are many projects
00:23:49related to electricity and water
00:23:52in every governorate. They were submitted for the 2027 investment
00:23:57allow to mention them all. For example, in Raqqa, we have the Rusafa and Suhul
00:24:01Al-Jarnib project. Also, we have a station that was
00:24:04previously bombed, the Baligh station. We have also
00:24:08included it in the 2027 plan. All of these are included in the
00:24:11investment plan for 2027, but the time does not
00:24:15allow me to mention all our projects that we submitted for
00:24:182027 during an hour or
00:24:22two presentations. Regarding water and electricity in Aleppo,
00:24:26it is truly the right of the brothers who demanded
00:24:30equality. Today, electricity in Idlib governorate
00:24:33and the northern Aleppo countryside is still more expensive than in other
00:24:37governorates.
00:24:39It is the same as the second tariff of Syrian electricity, but they do not have a subsidized tariff.
00:24:43So, God willing, we have an upcoming session
00:24:45to study the existing tariff in this region, whether it is for
00:24:49electricity or water. The decision on this
00:24:53is primarily because there are private companies involved. Private companies are
00:24:57buying electricity. We need to discuss with the Ministry of Finance to secure
00:25:01the loss that will result from reducing it. God willing, we will take steps
00:25:04to do this in the coming period.
00:25:06Of course, we will finalize it with the Ministry of Finance so that we can secure
00:25:10this subsidized tariff from the Ministry
00:25:14of Finance. We have the subsidized fuel price
00:25:18and its relationship with
00:25:21previously subsidized oil derivatives that were priced at
00:25:2570 dollars from the days of Tarhin and others. Today,
00:25:28a barrel of diesel, a barrel of crude
00:25:31oil, was 67 dollars. Today, a barrel of crude
00:25:34oil is 104 dollars. Yesterday, meaning today, the markets are closed. Brent will open
00:25:38tomorrow. So you have a big difference between crude oil prices previously
00:25:42and crude oil prices today. Also, regarding the Syrian Petroleum Company,
00:25:46I mentioned that it is a company. We can give you details, or I think the brothers, if
00:25:49they just put in a little effort and reviewed
00:25:53the recent decrees, the decrees establishing the Syrian
00:25:56Petroleum Company regulated the relationship completely. We have two decrees:
00:25:59a decree establishing the Syrian Petroleum Company and a
00:26:02decree forming the board of directors of the Petroleum
00:26:05Company. It doesn't require much effort to read
00:26:08the decrees. The details of the tasks, where each one's role is, what
00:26:14the Ministry are clear and detailed within
00:26:16the decrees issued by His Excellency the President. Regarding
00:26:20Azaz,
00:26:25the Ministry of Water, we will discuss where the projects are, what
00:26:30the region, if there are any studied projects to put them on our priorities, or if it is necessary
00:26:33to study projects to include them in
00:26:39the coming years, God willing. Thank you.
00:26:43Colleague Ahmed, please allow us. Regarding public transportation, it is
00:26:47also the same issue we were talking about earlier, supporting
00:26:50industry, agriculture, and transportation. I mean, we don't have a problem
00:26:54with the Ministry
00:26:57of Transportation going and asking for subsidized
00:27:00fuel or other things. So, the Ministry of Finance
00:27:03is the difference in support between us and them, because, as we mentioned, we
00:27:06fear that if we want to support a specific segment, everyone
00:27:09will ask for it. Transportation will ask, industry will ask, we will give certain subsidized diesel,
00:27:13which will lead to the spread of corruption in a situation where the
00:27:17bus owner doesn't consume 100 liters, but sells 50 and consumes 50,
00:27:20because its price is subsidized, so we enter the maze of the black market
00:27:24and subsidies. So, we can use GPS. We can
00:27:27work on the issue that the Ministry of Transportation arranges the matter. We will see what is required from
00:27:31our side and provide it to them, God willing. Colleague Ahmed Muhammad
00:27:35Al-Hariri. In
00:27:38the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Your Excellency the Minister, as
00:27:41you know, corruption devours development.
00:27:44Information has been received that there
00:27:47are two lines for smuggling oil
00:27:51from one of the Rumeilan fields towards northern
00:27:54Iraq. I consider this information as a
00:27:58report and notification to your Excellency and to the Central
00:28:01Control and Inspection Agency. Thank you.
00:28:05Colleague Muhammad Saadi Sukkari.
00:28:06A
00:28:09Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Your
00:28:12Excellency the Minister. As you mentioned in
00:28:16your presentation at the beginning of the session,
00:28:19there will be a group of electrical
00:28:22refineries to
00:28:25be put into operation with a production capacity
00:28:29of 35 barrels per day.
00:28:33The question is, what is the expected period for these
00:28:36refineries to come into operation?
00:28:39In addition, will there be a direct
00:28:42contract or will there be a call for bids?
00:28:46How will it be done? What are the qualification
00:28:50conditions? Is there an infrastructure,
00:28:53electricity? Is there an infrastructure for these refineries?
00:28:57And how will the operating costs be calculated?
00:29:00And who will monitor the quantities of input and the quantities
00:29:04of output derivatives? Thank you. Colleague
00:29:07Hamza Qabalan.
00:29:10Your Excellency the Minister, through my follow-up with the fuel committees in
00:29:14Homs governorate,
00:29:16they informed me that there is no monthly,
00:29:20annual, or daily report regarding fuel. And through
00:29:23their special work, they were able,
00:29:26with a simple tour and manual reports,
00:29:29to find that, for example, the water
00:29:32sector, after they verified its needs,
00:29:35the need for diesel decreased from 90,000
00:29:39liters per month to 500,000 liters of diesel.
00:29:43And regarding transportation, for example, in
00:29:46Homs, the monthly need for transportation,
00:29:49and all of them have GPS installed from the beginning, but it seems that it is not
00:29:53fully activated, is 3,300,000
00:29:56liters of diesel for
00:29:593,600
00:30:01buses. Perhaps if there was a monthly
00:30:04and perhaps daily report, taking into account the harvest, crises, and
00:30:08so on, we could reduce the waste in the public sector, let alone
00:30:11the private sector. Thank you. Colleague Mustafa
00:30:14Saqr. Thank you, Mr.
00:30:17Speaker. Your Excellency the Minister, I will talk
00:30:21about the industrial sector because I am close to it, and there are several questions,
00:30:25several questions about the current policy. If you could move the mic a little closer,
00:30:29and there are several questions about the current
00:30:32policy followed by the electricity company in purchasing surplus
00:30:35electricity from industrial establishments. There is a big
00:30:39difference. The surplus for the electricity
00:30:43company is 2 euro cents, or 2.3 US
00:30:46cents, and the estimated
00:30:49consumption price is 14 cents.
00:30:52That is about six times.
00:30:56Many countries this price.