Minister of Finance: diesel price reduction is still within the framework of the commissions

Dr. Mohamed Hussein, Minister of Finance said that the issue of reducing the price of diesel has yet to reach the government did not discuss the cost, so far … He pointed out that it discussed by the Commission which did not raise its findings to the cabinet to date.

Hussein denied that he has any figure on the price of diesel and the new transfer, contrary to some media statements attributed to him and to the sources in the Ministry of Finance that the government tends to reduce the price of a liter of fuel oil from 25 Syrian pounds to 14.75 S.p and provide monetary compensation to each family of Syria 10 thousand pounds, at the same time denying published reports that the issue has become in the hands of the Ministry of Finance.

 
He said: I have never said any figure on the new price of diesel and I want to emphasize that neither me nor any of the workers in the Ministry of Finance are members of the committee that is studying this subject at the direction of the cabinet.. and we do not have any information on the results of the work of the Commission that it has not yet completed its work and will be the outcome of its work to cabinet to approve the course and I did not declare that the only method of distribution of fuel through the voucher method was ineffective and plagued with many of the observations, the government is considering the alternative of vouchers may be monetary compensation is the best way to Details of this trend will determine the outcome of the work of the Committee referred to the cabinet and the decision on either the file from the fact that this issue has become in the Ministry of Finance, this argument has absolutely no truth to the fact that the Committee in charge of the study will report to the cabinet .

 
He added in response to a question on the review of vouchers, that the Government said that early that voucher are not permanent indicating that the voucher diesel way which has been distributed to all families Syrian (The number of such cards to 5 million) and each card contains 1000 liters of fuel, and then the support of one liter of 16 S.P. (the difference between the free and the price of 25. S.P. The subsidized price of 9.S.P) Thus, the total support in the cards up to 80 billion .. The purpose of the provision of a quantity of diesel per family at a subsidized price of Syria, and this form or mode of support, but what happened was that many of their fellow citizens to sell such cards at low prices .. Which they missed the opportunity to benefit from this support .. Not even a group of traders or owners of the stations or the owners of these players have bought cards and benefited from the support .. Except in cases of fraud that accompanied the circulation of these cards, as well as the existence of two prices for the fuel in the domestic market .. Thus the basis of all these observations, it is necessary to apply a new way to support the rule of diesel, which is heading the government .. Often, this will be the new method is: cash compensation for each family is the best solution Syria and safer for the delivery of support to target groups.