Sulaimani Polytechnic University Contributed In Organizing the First Sulaimani Forum

Under the auspices of the Governor of Sulaimani and with the concept (towards a modern system for managing the municipalities), on 30th of July, the first Sulaimani Forum was organized by the cooperation of SPU with the Municipalities of Sulaimani in the Grand Millennium Hotel ,the Forum sponsored by Asia cell ,Farooq Group as well as Garex Company.

The Forum started at 10am with the presence of the Governors of both Sulaimani and Halabja,President of Kurdistan Parliament ,representative of Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research president of the SPU and number of Deans and professors as well as lecturers of the SPU,Minister and General Director of Municipality, number of Parliament members and Mayors and Secretary Generals of Arab Universities Unit ,Mayor of Sanandaj Council and representatives of the Azadi University in Iran as well as Iran Media.

The Forum started with a speech delivered by SPU president Dr.Alan Faraidun and stated, most of the participants are having direct relation with the services so no doubt we are collaborating to organize all the municipality projects scientifically and academically.

Dr.Alan added we are always ready to present our scientific and academic services to any governmental and nongovernmental agencies, also said it gives us pleasure that both sides collaborated to organize this Forum and that the idea of team work will start from the city of Sulaimani and will no doubt has positive impact of the other areas in the Kurdistan Region.

Another aim of this Forum is the planning to organize an International conference, many local and international experts will attend the conference and will present many research in this regard.

Then Mr.Bahadeen Ibrahim General Director of the municipalities said, SPU has many experts in the fields of Municipality thus they decided to organize the Forum with them.

He added, we would like to organize further Forum in other parts of Kurdistan Region, and we would like to leave aside the political issues, then each of Omer Enayat Head of Municipality Committee in the Kurdistan Parliament ,Faisal Ali Director of the Kurdistan Economy Forum, Dr.Alan Faraidoon President of SPU and Mr.Bahadeen Ibrahim Director of Municipalities in Sulaimani participated in presenting articles in this regard ,and the participants presented some suggestions and questions and also discussed the obstacles that faces the municipality and presented solutions.

Then Dr.Alan presented a speech and said, what will be the impact of the political system on the Business management in the city ?he said the planners should have authority to take decisions and people should have role in taking decision for their cities and there should be Decentralization of governance.

Then Minister on Municipality and Tourism Mr. Nawroz Mawlud thanked the organizers of the Forum, and said this Forum has come in coincidence with our work on rearranging the organization chart of our ministry which has an important effect on this regard, and may these discussions come out with solution for the current situation in another words the financial crises that facing our country.