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The Council of Ministers held it's regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 11, to discuss the topics listed in its agenda.

At the meeting chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Oil Thamir Ghadhban, the Council of Ministers approved the recommendation of the Supreme Committee of creative evaluation in the ministries and the unattached entities to ministries which was formed according to the state order 3 of year 2017 to evaluate the creative work represented by 41 projects as indicated in the attached table linked to the Higher Education and Scientific Research minister's letter 11357 on 3rd of Dec 2019. And the Amendment of article 6 of ministers council decision 379 year 2016 to be as follow: To deliver the award from the budget of the entity which the creative work owner belongs to if was a governmental employees and from the beneficiary's budget if was from the private sector, 15 million IQD for each creative work.

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