Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announces the Iraqi Gov YouTube Channel
5:23 November 24, 2009
News & Politics
Iraqigov
السيد رئيس الوزراء يفتتح القناة الحكومية على موقع اليوتيوب
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Here's a translated transcript of this video, in English:
In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate.
In the interest of enabling the Iraqi government and the National Media Center to use technology and advanced methods of communications and to present our message to other peoples, and in particular with the Iraqi people at home and abroad;
The National Media Center has created the Iraqi channel on YouTube, a new and advanced method of communication.
The Iraqi government is committed to using this technology to connect to various international communities and to those who follow the issues in Iraq.
Iraq today is experiencing great developments, and we have great ambitions to achieve in regard to communicating with people around the world.
Contrary to some of the misleading information in the news, progress and development are taking place under the national government in Iraq.
Our political process and our democracy, as shown in the context of our elections, have demonstrated the participation of the Iraqi people and civil society organizations in the building of a new Iraq.
Significant achievements have been made in Iraq.
The World has not seen what the Iraqi government has been able to achieve concerning security, economy, politics, and building a federal democratic system.
The government sees in this video technology an opportunity to show our achievements.
The opening of Iraq Channel on YouTube through the National Media Center will be one of the methods that we will adopt to connect with people globally, and to show the situation developing in Iraq.
It is an opportunity to show the image of Iraq, the Iraqi government, and the achievements it has made.
Also, we hope to show to the world what Iraq went through -- a vigorous war on terror. Armed militias and gangs have been left behind in the bygone Baathist regime, which devastated and corrupted the country and the people.
In this attack on Iraq, lots of elements and groups participated in the attack on Iraq. These groups entered Iraq to exercise an act of terrorism.
This is an opportunity to show how we sacrificed, and to demonstrate the scale of devastation that took place - including the recent events in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Finance.
These are examples of terrorist acts carried out by the alliance between the Baath Party and al-Qaeda.
In the past, perhaps our shortfall was the media.
We were not able to show the world the heinous crimes against children. It is well-known how much the world cares about protecting children.
We need to show how children were killed in the bombing of the Ministry of Justice, where thirty children from the day care were killed.
This heinous crime have passed without the knowledge of the world. We do not want to blame the world because it did not respond to the crimes that took place, but we want to offer the people of world the information that they should know, so they can be our partners with us in the fight against terrorism. Terrorism has not affected only Iraq and the Iraqi people, but the all of humanity - and it affects all societies and peoples - it destroys all that progress and development
Therefore, I emphasize that we need to engage the world to fight against terrorism - which is a global war on all of what we have accomplished.
I congratulate the National Media Center and I thank the President of the Center and its employees for their efforts and dedication.
I wish them more success in development, and their attention to using technology that will give Iraq a media presence, and show the Iraqi image to the world, especially in light of our new vision - Iraq will depend on such initiatives as this, which can compensate for our challenges in presenting Iraq in the international arena.
I thank you very much and I wish all the citizens at home and abroad, and those interested in Iraqi affairs as well as those who cares about Iraq, to check this YouTube site, which will be effective, God willing.
Thank you very much.
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