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Article: Iran Drafts Emergency Plan to Deal With Unemployment
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 4, 2002
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Saturday disclosed that the
government has drafted an emergency plan aimed to create more jobs to
deal with present high rate of unemployment, the official IRNA news
agency reported.
Speaking to a large gathering of workers at the Azadi Sports
Stadium here, Khatami noted that ministries of labor and social
affairs, finance and economy, the Central Bank of Iran and the state-
run Management and Planning Organization (MPO) have drafted the
emergency plan, saying he hopes the cabinet will approve it.
"Since I don't want to speculate before ratification of the
emergency plan, I don't want to go into the details," he said, adding
that grounds should be ...