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AFPBAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Electricity Minister Karim Wahid urged the government to double his ministry's budget to allow swifter rehabilitation of the country's battered power network in comments published on Wednesday.
"We have asked for four billion dollars to rebuild the power network but the 2008 budget gave us 1.4 billion dollars," Iraqi newspapers quoted Wahid as saying.
"We need 1.5 billion dollars to repair power stations and 2.5 billion dollars to buy new ones."
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The beleaguered minister urged foreign firms to help rehabilitate the power sector which suffered from serious under-investment under Saddam Hussein's regime before being heavily battered by the US-led invasion of 2003 and subsequent sabotage by insurgent groups.
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