The Prime Minister's Office directed all ministries and governorates, and all entities and bodies not associated with ministries, to implement the package of facilities for press work, announced by Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani yesterday.
It is noteworthy that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani directed the issuance of a package of measures and directives that must be implemented in support of Iraqi journalists and media institutions, on the occasion of the 154th National Day of the Iraqi press.
The Prime Minister's Media Office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "the Prime Minister directed all ministries, governorates and bodies not associated with a ministry to overcome obstacles and provide the necessary facilities for press and media cadres who have an official license from the Media and Communications Commission, in line with the law."
The Prime Minister also directed the concerned authorities to "provide media institutions with Internet service at subsidized prices, as well as to reconsider the financial transfers of the media with regard to (satellites) for media channels and offices, in order to serve the media reality in Iraq, in accordance with the Central Bank of Iraq Law and instructions for controlling external transfer."

In order to facilitate the procedures for the movement of press and media cadres who have an official license, the Prime Minister directed all checkpoints and security detachments stationed between all governorates to "implement this," instructing to "provide the necessary facilities and deal more smoothly for the passage of cadres of journalists and employees of media offices and their special equipment at Iraqi airports, as well as facilitating the granting of entry visas to journalists working in media offices and channels and facilitating their residency procedures in Iraq, based on the Foreigners' Residence Law No. (76) of 2017."
In the field of continuous support, the Prime Minister directed, according to the statement, to "facilitate the completion of social security transactions for press cadres working in various media institutions," directing to "reconsider the fees of water and electricity imposed on media channels and offices, as well as generator fuel wages."