US declares countries allowed to participate in tenders in Iraq
US Ministry of Defense yesterday released the list of 63 countries which are allowed to participate in tenders, which US allocated $18.6 billion, for the reconstruction of
Iraq. Besides, the conference for informing companies interested in the tenders was planned to take place this week, however is delayed to early January 2004 without any declaration. Same was delayed several times before.
The list of countries, where countries such as
Germany,
France and
Russia opposing to the US' operation in
Iraq are not included, is as follows:
Afghanistan,
Albania,
Azerbaijan,
Bahrain,
Bulgaria,
Colombia,
Costa Rica, Czech Rep.,
Denmark, Dominican Rep.,
Egypt,
El Salvador,
Eritrea,
Estonia,
Ethiopia,
Georgia,
Honduras,
Iceland,
Iraq,
Italy,
Japan,
Jordan,
Kazakhstan,
Kuwait,
Latvia,
Macedonia, Marshall Islands,
Micronesia, Moldavia,
Mongolia,
Morocco,
New Zealand,
Nicaragua,
Norway,
Oman,
Palau,
Panama,
Philippines,
Poland,
Portugal,
Qatar,
Romania,
Rwanda, Saudi Arabia,
Singapore,
Slovakia,
Solomon Islands, South
Korea,
Spain,
Thailand,
Tonga,
Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
Uganda,
Ukraine, England, US, and
Uzbekistan.