Source: International Business Times
Syrian Finance Minister Mohammed Yisr Barnieh said the country needs technical support, not financial assistance, from international organizations like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank AFP Syria is in a hurry to rebuild its war-torn economy and will not wait for the international community to begin making those changes, the country's finance minister said Wednesday. Mohammed Yisr Barnieh, who spoke at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, was part of Syria's first delegation to the Fund and the World Bank's semi-annual gathering of central bank governors and finance ministers since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011. Barnieh serves as finance minister in the country's transitional government, set up earlier this year by Ahmed al-Sharaa after his Islamist forces ousted Syria's long-serving strongman Bashar al-Assad.
