Sayyid Al-Hakeem Stresses Employing University Expertise, Developing Diyala Through Artificial Intelligence, Investing Economic Opportunities
During his visit to the University of Diyala, His Eminence Sayyid Al-Hakeem, Head of the National State Powers' Alliance, met with the university's president, Dr. Tahseen Hussein Mubarak, and a number of the deans of its colleges, professors, and faculty members, commending the university's efforts in maximizing its resources, and pointing at the same time to the economic challenges in Iraq as a result of the events in the region, which caused fluctuation in oil production and export and a decline in prices, in a country that suffers from a rentier economy, regarding Iraq as the country most affected by this crisis. H.E. explained that Iraq will move from a line-item budget to a program-based budget through oil's support for the electricity and education sectors and the governorates of Al-Diwaniyah and Salah Al-Din.
H.E. called on the University of Diyala and the other universities to set priorities for the coming phase, pointing out that the end of the International Coalition's missions against ISIS has placed on Iraqis the task of managing their own affairs and sending messages of reassurance among the Iraqi components, regarding Diyala as a miniature Iraq and a station for sending messages of reassurance to all of Iraq. H.E. held the universities and their professors responsible for launching dialogue platforms to consolidate the values of coexistence in one homeland, clarified the nature of the link between social incubators and terrorism, called for blocking the way to terrorism and not returning to previous squares, and affirmed that the current priority is economic. H.E. called on Diyala to invest its agricultural, industrial, commercial, tourist, and oil strengths, stressing the provision of the scientific vision necessary to invest these opportunities through seminars and workshops that enable the executive apparatus to do so, and expressed regret over the decline of citrus production in Diyala after it had been first in that field, while commending the introduction of digitization and artificial intelligence into the university's branches and departments.
