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00:00:01a young man they had kidnapped from the countryside of
00:00:06are the demands of the residents Quneitra province. The reporter of Al-Ekhbariya stated that the young man
00:00:09was kidnapped two days ago by the occupation forces while
00:00:12passing through a checkpoint they had set up on the road
00:00:17comes as an export, I mean, from connecting the town of Khan Arnabeh and the village
00:00:18is prepared stating that the commodity of Ufania.
00:00:22Two children died and two others were injured
00:00:25due to a landmine explosion in Al-Bukamal city in Deir Ezzor.
00:00:28A medical
00:00:32did the price of walnuts go source for Deir Ezzor's media directorate stated that Aisha Hospital in Al-Bukamal city
00:00:35received two deaths and two injuries
00:00:39Oh, okay, when the dollar of varying severity due to a landmine explosion in Al-Bukamal, where
00:00:44that is considered, let's say, the injured were transferred to Deir Ezzor National Hospital for further
00:00:50in the beginning, now we don't even bring half, less than treatment. The Raqqa media directorate
00:00:53announced the full resumption of traffic on the Raqqa-Deir Ezzor road
00:00:56for civilian and commercial traffic.
00:01:00According to the Raqqa media directorate,
00:01:03traffic resumed after the completion of a
00:01:07culvert next to Khneifis Bridge and the preparation
00:01:10of the side passage designated for vehicle
00:01:12crossing.
00:01:16The National Transitional Justice Commission called on victims
00:01:20and their families and those affected by the former
00:01:22or on the brigadier general in the defunct regime's army, do you see a price list outside Mohammed Hassan Al-Sharif, to
00:01:26is supervision, but they only supervise submit claims and testimonies
00:01:28the stores. We want them to supervise for presentation to the investigative judge.
00:01:30The director of accountability and oversight at the National
00:01:34Transitional Justice Commission,
00:01:36warnings, warn you, or tell you Radif Mustafa, clarified that Al-Sharif is currently detained
00:01:39before the specialized investigative judge
00:01:41for transitional justice, calling on those affected
00:01:45to approach the relevant authorities
00:01:48through consumer protection patrols and submit claims and testimonies. He also indicated that the commission is fully prepared to provide
00:01:53which is aimed at controlling free legal and logistical
00:01:56do you see the rising prices recently assistance.
00:01:58Hama University, in cooperation with the Anti-Narcotics Department,
00:02:02launched
00:02:05Hassan, and the efforts you mentioned, the comprehensive awareness campaign "Syria Without Drugs" through
00:02:09a series of seminars and awareness activities that will last
00:02:12three days and target students from various
00:02:16to get to the root of university faculties. The campaign aims to raise the awareness of university youth
00:02:20about the dangers of drugs and their repercussions,
00:02:23and to promote a culture
00:02:26talk about this market, Sheikh of prevention and confrontation of this scourge,
00:02:27How can this in addition to introducing the legal and humanitarian
00:02:30guarantees that ensure complete
00:02:37prices, because of course, A price bulletin was issued confidentiality and exemption from punishment for anyone who voluntarily seeks treatment
00:02:41to further extortion, so it was and recovery. The Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations
00:02:45Development Programme in Syria,
00:02:47they are available in Ruhi Afghani, stated that more than 16.5 million people
00:02:51are in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria, which makes
00:02:55investment in recovery and development an urgent necessity in light
00:02:59of declining humanitarian funding. For his part, the Deputy
00:03:03Representative of UNICEF in Syria, Laurence Ondo, affirmed that the return
00:03:06of more than two million internally
00:03:11the market come to you from the morning. displaced persons and 1.8 million refugees to Syria since the liberation places additional pressure on
00:03:14services, which necessitates expanding partnerships with the private
00:03:17sector in light of the insufficient humanitarian funding alone
00:03:21to meet
00:03:23important reasons for price price based on, let's say, the needs.
00:03:26End of news brief. Thank you for watching.
00:03:39working to control
00:03:53fruits, there are many things, I mean, cheaper
00:04:00other directorates? As I mentioned
00:04:12complain or contact
00:04:36citizen oversight in this
00:04:39and this is his price. If you don't like it,
00:05:01In light of the fluctuating exchange rate of the Syrian pound against the dollar and the rising
00:05:05prices in the market, what role do the relevant
00:05:08ministries play in controlling
00:05:11prices the free
00:05:15and open market? What
00:05:18from the relevant ministry,
00:05:20and how does all this affect
00:05:24this and more details in a new episode of the program "Link." Welcome.
00:05:41We want to ask about the issue of prices and their control
00:05:45in this market, and generally your follow-up, by God, it's very
00:05:48expensive. Day by day, week by week, everything
00:05:52is going up.
00:05:54I mean,
00:05:57we used to bring, I mean, what can I tell you? I don't know, I mean, what we used to bring
00:06:02half of the materials in general.
00:06:06Okay, do you notice big differences between one place and another
00:06:09in the prices of the same goods?
00:06:12Well, I mean, here in the city, everything
00:06:16is almost the same. The difference is small, I mean, between wholesale stores and ordinary
00:06:20stores in the city, but outside, I don't know, I haven't
00:06:23tried it, but the problem is the general high prices. Yes, by God, it's
00:06:26expensive.
00:06:29Expensive, and the income is no longer enough at all. Okay, if you see a very
00:06:33high price, what would you do? I mean, above
00:06:36what's logical, what am I supposed to do? I mean, we have to reduce
00:06:40the quantity of the goods we buy. We used to buy a tray of eggs, now we buy a quarter
00:06:43of a tray. We used to buy a tin of oil, now we buy a kilo of oil. I mean, what else
00:06:47can one do? No, no, I mean something else, that the price
00:06:51is very high, I mean, more expensive than its neighbors, more expensive than its
00:06:55surroundings, more expensive than the whole city, he didn't put a price on something
00:06:58specific. Well, first of all, I won't buy from him, I mean,
00:07:01the supply department should monitor and follow up on this issue. We want to ask you about
00:07:04the issue of price control, how do you notice prices for everything
00:07:08in the market now? Honestly, there is no control over
00:07:11prices, I mean, for marketing, you know what I mean? I mean,
00:07:15first of all, prices have risen at crazy rates, I mean,
00:07:18beyond the exchange rate, you know what I mean? I mean, there's
00:07:22a 30 to 40% increase Secondly, you find the price of a product
00:07:25in one place, for example, it's one price, then you go to another
00:07:29place and you find a different price, you know what I mean?
00:07:33This is also something the citizen is suffering
00:07:35from. So, it needs solutions, it needs mechanisms. Let's
00:07:38Saad. You always come here, don't you?
00:07:42All your goods almost all my stuff, I get
00:07:45it from Sheikh Saad market, with varying prices, so I know
00:07:49that this store has reasonable prices for this item,
00:07:52so I buy it from him, then I go to another store that's suitable
00:07:56for a certain product. I have never seen a control patrol or any
00:08:00control whatsoever. Absolutely
00:08:03never, honestly. For example, the price of
00:08:06chicken rises, let's talk about chicken, since we are standing in front of it,
00:08:10you know what I mean? Now, for example, the price of chicken rises,
00:08:13the price of, let's say, a ton rises with
00:08:16it and reaches, let's say,
00:08:19the price of a kilo of shawarma The price of a ton drops
00:08:23to $2000. Where is the drop here? There is no
00:08:26drop, or if there is a drop, it's a small drop. Well, who is
00:08:30eating this difference? Mostly the citizen is eating it. Well, when you
00:08:35the dollar, based on the price of the ton, didn't it rise to $3000?
00:08:39You made a certain price. Well, it dropped to $200. Where is
00:08:43the decrease? We are not noticing any decrease, honestly. Our
00:08:46traders are clever only when it comes to raising prices, but when it's time
00:08:50to lower them, they don't lower them. Did you try to complain or
00:08:53contact anyone? Well, honestly, I tried sometimes through the "Mahloula" app or
00:08:57for example, on the ministry's website.
00:08:59Sorry, with the Consumer Protection
00:09:02Directorate. They confused me until
00:09:05I reached what I wanted. Some told me to call such and such a number, some
00:09:09sent me to inquiries, some to another number. No,
00:09:13we are not involved in this story, you know what I mean? I mean, the last
00:09:17time I remember was at Homs garage. I called them because the prices
00:09:21were double and triple, which is not logical. I mean, an item that
00:09:24costs, for example, 5000, they sell it for 20.
00:09:27Why? What is the reason? I went
00:09:30and called, for example, they confused me, some told me to call this, some told
00:09:34me to call that. I mean, sometimes you reach a point where you just don't want to complain anymore,
00:09:38honestly. We are noticing a slight increase in prices. Now prices
00:09:41are fluctuating sometimes, a slight increase. What I
00:09:45saw is that sometimes prices go up and down, not just up. Now, thankfully,
00:09:48we are seeing, I mean, we are noticing control patrols and health patrols
00:09:52roaming around. I saw a patrol just now. I was walking there in front of the bakery
00:09:56and I saw them wearing black shirts, and some of them were carrying cameras.
00:09:59We see them inside the stores. I mean, we are noticing
00:10:03them now. All of them,
00:10:06they all give the reason that it's due to the rising
00:10:09exchange rate and currency changes, and this and that. But I
00:10:12mean, bless the ministry for what they are doing. Do you see an effect of this? I mean, do you see
00:10:16price control and unified prices? No, prices
00:10:19are honestly not unified, prices vary, but
00:10:23I think we are almost heading towards a free market
00:10:27policy. I mean, if you want something cheap, you might walk a bit further
00:10:30and get it cheap. If you want something to your liking, you can get it. So people
00:10:34start going to the store with the better I mean, today, whoever
00:10:38controls prices, it's no longer, I mean, there is oversight, but it's not the oversight that
00:10:42controls prices. Today, if I have a store, and I lower
00:10:45my prices a bit, more people will come to me. If I want to target
00:10:49a certain segment of people, I might raise my prices a bit, fewer customers
00:10:53will come. So this is the market policy that exists. There are
00:10:57cheap, medium, and expensive options. Where do you like to go? Oh, so you support
00:11:00this free market vision? Absolutely, I strongly
00:11:04support it, because you can't force a store owner to sell a shawarma
00:11:08sandwich, for example, for a certain price, or he will reduce
00:11:11its quality or make it bad for you, so you will run into
00:11:15other problems just so he can adhere to the pricing set
00:11:19by the ministry. Now, regarding patrols, they are present.
00:11:22The patrols are present and cooperating with the
00:11:27patrols, and we feel it. I mean, now, as I was coming,
00:11:31I saw two brothers sitting there from the supply patrols.
00:11:34I just saw them. Yes, they are standing
00:11:37and controlling prices amicably, and there is no,
00:11:41I mean, we now feel a difference from before the liberation
00:11:45and after the liberation. The employee used to come, and his goal was not
00:11:48to control prices, his goal was to harm, to harm the store
00:11:52owner by closing the store or imprisoning him or something.
00:11:55Well, now, thank God, it's possible for him to give you
00:12:01where the loophole is, or there is deterrence, I mean,
00:12:03store owners who violate either the price or
00:12:07the quality are deterred. Of course, because we, I mean,
00:12:11our people understand with words, they understand with
00:12:14approach. You don't need to deter them with imprisonment or anything.
00:12:18A word, guidance And then, quality plays
00:12:22a role in floating prices. We are with floating prices. I
00:12:25want a good product. I pay more. I
00:12:29want a product that I don't find. I mean, now, for
00:12:32vegetables, for example, if you want apples and such, there are apples
00:12:35for 15, for 20, for so much. Depending on my social
00:12:39situation, I buy according to my need. Yes.
00:12:43Therefore, the situation is good. Have you ever
00:12:46seen a violation and complained about it? Have you tried that? Well, you told
00:12:49us that the patrols are cooperative with the cooperative. And how
00:12:53are they cooperative? They are cooperative with the citizen. If the citizen
00:12:57feels that he is being wronged or something, they can come
00:13:00and respond. Oh, I noticed that now. Well,
00:13:03just now I noticed them. I mean, I saw someone complaining, or what? No, but
00:13:07I noticed them. I mean, they came to a store and were asking about prices
00:13:10and price control and quality. You are a store owner,
00:13:14a store owner. How was your experience with the price
00:13:17control and quality patrols?
00:13:21They give you a price list and they give you, I mean,
00:13:25now there's ease and no ease. Now there's continuous follow-up, by the way.
00:13:28I mean, morning patrol, noon patrol, evening patrol. Three patrols
00:13:34Three patrols that inspect
00:13:36for prices. Now, they are restricting you
00:13:40regarding invoices. There's a problem with invoices between us and the traders
00:13:43because, I mean, wholesale market traders rarely give you
00:13:47invoices. Now they are obliging them. Now they have been pressuring
00:13:51them for a while regarding invoices. Well, how does the citizen
00:13:55benefit from these measures? The citizen benefits from them
00:13:58because today, when a wholesale trader has to commit
00:14:01to an invoice, then the retail trader commits
00:14:04to the pricing, you know? But when he doesn't give you
00:14:07an invoice, you buy expensive, you sell expensive, which is not
00:14:11good for the consumer. Yes. Well, is the intervention
00:14:14about quality and cleanliness or price? You have three
00:14:17types, three types. You have first-grade, second-grade, third-grade.
00:14:21Some stores only sell first-grade, they charge you for first-grade.
00:14:25Some form.
00:14:28Okay, for example, today, if you faced a problem
00:14:31with a trader, the big trader in the wholesale
00:14:34market, did you ever
00:14:37the patrols? If he doesn't give me an invoice, I don't buy from him. Oh,
00:14:41before we were obliged, now the patrols are obliging them. We used
00:14:44to suffer a lot from this issue. What has this helped you with? It helped me that
00:14:47the price for you is now fixed. When the wholesaler
00:14:51commits to you, you commit to your pricing.
00:14:56But today, if he doesn't give you, he gives you any price, it becomes
00:15:00expensive for you and expensive for the consumer. This control
00:15:03they imposed in the wholesale market is honestly thanks to the supply department.
00:15:06May God bless you. How much is the walnut? We are selling it
00:15:10Is this one type or more than one type? This is one type, and this is another
00:15:13type. Yes, the other type, how much is it now?
00:15:17Here we sell it for 110, here 115, of course, the same
00:15:21people are charging 110 for 110. Masha'Allah, wow. Okay, let's ask you generally,
00:15:25how do you see prices, their impact
00:15:28on control, or are prices controlled in this market,
00:15:31or is there a lot of variation? Well, I mean, what can I tell you,
00:15:35it's a give and take, not just for the weather.
00:15:41Well, prices, what can I tell you, I mean, they're a bit high. I mean, not as
00:15:45you'd want them to be all the time. Yes. Okay, let's go back to the issue of walnuts. What affects
00:15:48you? Its price affects me. Where
00:15:52do you buy it from? Well, it
00:15:55Al-Bazuriyeh. You buy it from Al-Bazuriyeh.
00:15:58Yes, I mean, I don't have tourist prices. I bring it for 90 and
00:16:01sell it for 100, you put your share, and that's it. I mean,
00:16:04thank God, what can I say, little profit. May God bless you. Okay,
00:16:09up with the dollar? Yes, according to the dollar, they also
00:16:13price it for us at the same time.
00:16:17rose last time, did you notice it rose by the same
00:16:20percentage, or more? When the dollar rose, it rose
00:16:24more. Yes. This is a problem, not
00:16:28a big problem. Who should control it? Well,
00:16:32I mean, how can I explain it to you? They
00:16:35have stocks of walnuts. Yes,
00:16:39when the dollar rises, they raise the price. They have
00:16:42the walnuts in stock, so when they bought it for 90,
00:16:46and the dollar rose, they say 100. Yes, he has to buy again at a high
00:16:50price, that's what he says. He sells at a high price.
00:16:53It's confirmed that the dollar has risen. Are they monitored?
00:16:56I don't know. When you go,
00:17:00question? On the question. Yes, there
00:17:06the big traders. What does the retail store have to do with it? I mean,
00:17:09you go into a retail store, and he says, "This is how I calculate it," and he shows you
00:17:13the invoice, "This is how they calculate it for me." You know? They should supervise
00:17:17the importers, the big traders in the wholesale market, Al-Ziblatani
00:17:20market. These are the wholesale traders, I mean. Okay, this is a point
00:17:24we can ask them about, honestly, and some store owners mentioned
00:17:27that supervision of traders has started. But I want to ask
00:17:30you something else. How
00:17:34with the dollar when it rose, did it rise like the dollar
00:17:37or more? Now, it rose, no, by God, like the dollar,
00:17:40but it rose the most when fuel prices also rose.
00:17:43Most stores raised prices with
00:17:46fuel prices. Yes, it rose with fuel prices
00:17:49and it also rose with the dollar, but the dollar, you see,
00:17:52has now dropped, thank God. Chicken prices have gone down, thank God.
00:17:56May God reward them. Yes, but everything else has become expensive. Now, labneh is
00:18:0042,000, shredded cheese, for example, is 93,
00:18:0394, you know what I mean? It's very expensive, very. I mean,
00:18:07oil is 35 and 36. They don't have olive oil. They are now
00:18:11selling green olives for 10,000. Why? Yes.
00:18:14For example, a bottle of oil, I mean, why
00:18:17are they selling it for 30,000? I don't understand why they are selling a bottle of
00:18:21oil for 30,000, you know what I mean? Well,
00:18:24do you feel there's a difference within the market? Do you feel this
00:18:27is happening? You find, for example, malls offering promotions,
00:18:31wholesale stores. We are running to them, but in ordinary stores, all prices
00:18:35are the same. I mean, close. Yes, prices in the market
00:18:38are close, but generally speaking, goods are expensive. Everything
00:18:41is expensive, sir, everything is expensive. I don't know why. I mean,
00:18:45last year, oil was 17. 3000. From your
00:18:49experience in Damascus, what are the differences you saw
00:18:51in prices between Damascus and Qamishli? Well, there are big
00:18:54differences. First, let's talk about transportation,
00:18:58taxis. We take a taxi from Al-Rawda roundabout
00:19:01to Al-Marjeh, Al-Bahsa, Al-Hariqa for 25,000,
00:19:0530,000 at most. In Qamishli,
00:19:08you take a taxi down a street, he takes 30,000 from you. Yes, it's more expensive
00:19:12there, I mean, much more expensive. And regarding food, there, now, let's take a broasted
00:19:15chicken for 11,000, 115. They calculate it there for
00:19:19125, 130, 150. Oh, I mean,
00:19:22restaurants, each one sets its own price. Good.
00:19:26There are many things. Vegetables are cheaper there. I mean, I see
00:19:31than Qamishli by a lot. I mean, you saw that life there is generally
00:19:34cheaper. Generally cheaper, but house rents are almost
00:19:37comparable to Qamishli, and now it has increased here. Now you come
00:19:41and take a house for 200, 200, 300 dollars. There it starts
00:19:44from 100, 150 and up. The control patrols were not
00:19:47activated in Qamishli. The control patrols in Qamishli have not been activated
00:19:51yet. No, no, no official departments, nothing. Nothing
00:19:54It is expected that in the next few days and this coming week,
00:19:57the governorate will regain its strength, and the governor
00:20:01is working on this matter, and banks will open,
00:20:04and official departments will open, and supervision will begin, and there will be supervision
00:20:12Each person is selling at their own price. This is here, and this is here,
00:20:17he tells you, go buy from someone else.
00:20:42Viewers, to talk about this, I welcome Mr. Hassan Al-Shawwa, Director
00:20:46of the Consumer Protection and Food Safety Directorate at the General
00:20:58to you with many details. God willing, we will convey them as much
00:21:01as possible to the viewers, and we will convey to you the voice of the residents
00:21:05we met. Initially,
00:21:07we want to know what is the role of the Directorate in
00:21:11controlling prices
00:21:13and what is
00:21:16its relation to price increases,
00:21:20and reducing the price increases
00:21:31topic, and a topic
00:21:34one of the priorities since the market was restricted
00:21:37as the previous role of the Directorate was through the Price
00:21:41Directorate, which was price setting. Currently,
00:21:44within the Directorate, there is a department specialized in price surveying.
00:21:47It is the Price Department, as you all
00:21:50know. Currently, the free market
00:21:54the ministry intervenes if the goods are essential and affect
00:21:58the citizen's needs. So it intervenes in setting the price,
00:22:01such as setting the price of a loaf of bread, which is fixed
00:22:05in terms of price and weight, and monitoring quality,
00:22:08and also monitoring facilities through the Food Safety Department.
00:22:12Generally, the transition to a free market is, in reality,
00:22:15still in its, let's say, first third.
00:22:19of the transition to a free market, because it is, let's say,
00:22:23traded between a producer, an importer,
00:22:26and an activity owner, and also the consumer
00:22:30as a primary monitor in the market and a constant stakeholder,
00:22:33and the widespread monitoring system
00:22:38in the governorates, whose role has shifted from
00:22:41an authoritarian role, a role that sometimes
00:22:45involves extortion or bribery or a reputation
00:22:49that inspectors almost have a bad reputation, to a role
00:22:52where we began with training courses, that their role
00:22:56is a service role, a role
00:23:02is the difference, what
00:23:05distinguishes the system you work with in price control
00:23:08from perhaps different systems that
00:23:12the defunct regime used to work with?
00:23:17be explained? Previously, there was restriction
00:23:20and price setting.
00:23:23from the price bulletin. The consumer
00:23:26price was always far from reality, and it was a door
00:23:31not used at all. Generally, the rate of use was very
00:23:34low, if that's the right expression. It used
00:23:37to be added to the clauses
00:23:41of the previous law, which was accompanied by imprisonment, which was another
00:23:44door to extortion. So, consumer protection work was authoritarian,
00:23:48its impact was weak, in addition
00:23:50to the issue, and competition was also restricted
00:23:53to specific importers. Even basic commodities were restricted
00:23:57to importers who had connections to the authority. But regardless
00:24:01of these measures, the current free market has opened up a wide
00:24:05field for competition, supply, and demand, which is still in
00:24:08its early stages. What we are seeing is one of the most
00:24:13increases or price differences, in addition to other reasons
00:24:17related to the sales area, whether it is a city
00:24:20or a rural area or a popular market or a tourist
00:24:24facility. Aha, okay. Now, if you are
00:24:29prices so that there are no large differences,
00:24:32and you are also monitoring quality. We will get to
00:24:43it an external matter perhaps even related
00:24:46to other ministries or
00:24:50to you, we intervene directly in basic commodities and indirectly
00:24:54in all commodities through the price and price survey
00:24:57department. Currently, there was
00:25:00an example, perhaps, I mean, we can mention a practical example
00:25:04you carried out during the past period through price surveying for a certain
00:25:08commodity between governorates, and therefore you took measures
00:25:12Yes, as a live example, which currently lacks stability.
00:25:16It occurs in periods depending on supply and demand. This is the chicken
00:25:19product. Hmm. Sometimes, of course, the chicken product in producing
00:25:23governorates and governorates that are importing incurs
00:25:26costs above the production stage, which are lower than the
00:25:29transportation costs, in addition
00:25:32Chicken varies from one governorate to another, so the large increases
00:25:36are sometimes linked to supply and demand and tourist
00:25:38seasons. The survey is conducted in case of an increase, and intervention
00:25:42is made. Intervention is either through monitoring
00:25:45the sequence of invoices
00:25:48and prices and price announcements, in addition
00:25:51them and intervening to control them by selling at an increased
00:25:55price, or by considering
00:25:58that supply is low and demand is high, so a proposal is drafted
00:26:02and sent to the Supply and Import Committee to open
00:26:06up the import of chicken, as happened recently. Does the intervention
00:26:10reach this extent, that you even
00:26:13control if the reason for the increase is a shortage of supply and
00:26:16increased demand? So, a clear justifying memorandum
00:26:21is less, so you keep the committee, and the committee
00:26:24then... Well, does this include all commodities? This includes all
00:26:27commodities that witness unjustified increases compared to
00:26:31all governorates. Of course, as you know, we are talking about a free
00:26:35market, an unrestricted import market,
00:26:38and production materials. So, the supply of the material in all governorates
00:26:41will be from multiple importers and also different
00:26:45producers, and at the same time, different sales outlets. When the survey
00:26:49is conducted, it is conducted across all governorates. So, if there is price stability, even if
00:26:53it is high, I mean, the price is high from the consumer's
00:26:56perspective. Yes, but all sales outlets
00:27:00are similar, stable. This increase is sometimes
00:27:03mostly due to a shortage of supply, for example. Yes,
00:27:07or a commodity that has witnessed a certain
00:27:11epidemic, a shortage, so the season is affected, and sometimes
00:27:14it witnesses an increase. So, if the solution is in import,
00:27:18then import is allowed, because consumer protection
00:27:22also includes, if the import price is indeed
00:27:25lower, it is studied that the import price is lower
00:27:28and secures the commodity, so import is opened for a limited period,
00:27:33of course, taking into account local production. Last week,
00:27:36chicken farmers were experiencing losses.
00:27:39I mean, the week before, they always had protests
00:27:42and objections. You opened exports,
00:27:46you closed exports. This export opening is restricted,
00:27:49I mean, it's not for a limited period and types, so
00:27:52feathered chicken export was opened,
00:27:56prices for the citizen. Exactly. We saw
00:27:59a big drop, and this includes all commodities. But despite
00:28:03everything you mentioned, Mr.
00:28:07honestly, and we thank you for them, the price is still high,
00:28:10as most of the residents we met
00:28:14said. Prices are always rising and inflating. We want
00:28:18this issue. It's as I mentioned to you, the reality is supply
00:28:22and demand. There is now competition. There is a project, God willing,
00:28:26that will soon see the light
00:28:28in all cities and rural areas, which is
00:28:32the Syrian Trade Halls. Hmm, which will open new
00:28:36sales outlets with specific
00:28:39they are specified based on will be a positive intervention for basic
00:28:42materials, which when they experience a price increase, there will
00:28:45be special imports or the release of special materials if
00:28:50the local market at, let's say, a reduced
00:28:53price. You will move to direct practical impact
00:28:56through centers. Where has this process reached, Mr. Hassan?
00:28:59In the experimental implementation phases, God willing, in the next few days.
00:29:03This will happen. It will start in halls where there will be subsidized
00:29:07materials or just for market regulation? Not subsidized materials
00:29:10in the sense of being subsidized, meaning materials less than cost, but at a reduced
00:29:14price and with a small profit margin compared
00:29:16to the inputs. The place
00:29:20of sale will be free, meaning the company that will offer
00:29:23in return, a reduction in basic materials
00:29:27at a price or, let's say, a small profit. If,
00:29:30up to this moment, traders
00:29:33can still control the market, meaning there might be
00:29:37some cartels that can raise the price of a certain commodity, how do you deal
00:29:40with that? In case we see any price increase, it is being studied
00:29:44from the original source of import.
00:29:47And also, in cooperation with land and sea ports,
00:29:51the issue of inspections and the entry
00:29:55of goods and the people entering the quantities
00:29:58distributed, and also visiting warehouses and counting the quantities.
00:30:02Of course, as I mentioned, this matter requires extensive
00:30:05preparation and statistics, and we are moving forward
00:30:08with steps we started with a direct access system
00:30:11for all activities. Aha. And currently, also
00:30:13for factories and manufacturers, and also warehouses. When
00:30:17you have the information, you can intervene. Is this through
00:30:20the application you are working on, special to you, and constant
00:30:24monitoring and oversight happens and you expand it? Okay, I want to
00:30:27ask about something related to citizen oversight, which is very
00:30:30important and touches the time. How
00:30:32do you deal with citizen complaints,
00:30:35and how will you activate
00:30:38regard? Honestly, I thank you, this is the important point,
00:30:42because today the real eye and the real oversight is
00:30:45the citizen, in light of market liberalization. I mean,
00:30:48we oblige businesses to announce the price, and the citizen,
00:30:52when he looks at the price announcement in one place and the price announcement in another
00:30:55place, he will buy from the lower price, for sure,
00:30:58but