The Cabinet approved the recommendations of the Ministry of higher education and scientific research on the return of the headquarters of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils to Iraq, as follows:
- The Ministry of higher education and scientific research has prepared the headquarters of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils in Iraq, through the restoration and rehabilitation of the building, and the completion of furnishing requirements, to allow the exercise of its activity, and from the revenues of the Higher Education Fund in the center of the ministry.
- Instructing the Ministry of finance that Iraq’s contributions should be 50% of the annual budget of the Union, starting from the fiscal year 2025.
- Instructing the Ministry of foreign affairs to facilitate the procedures of the staff of the Union of Arab Scientific Research Councils.
- Private universities provide the necessary support to the Union in accordance with the Private Higher Education Law No. 25 of 2016.
