Ali Faleh al-Zeidi, Iraq’s prime minister and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, chaired a meeting of the High Committee for Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management today, Sunday, 15 November 2026.
The Prime Minister’s Media Office said that the meeting discussed several important issues. Al-Zeidi also reviewed the National Strategy for Responding to Crises and Disasters, prepared by the National Security Advisory.
The Iraqi prime minister stressed the importance of securing all essential supplies, including food, medicine and fuel, to address any natural or human-made crisis, while protecting sensitive institutions and critical infrastructure. In this context, al-Zeidi instructed the Ministry of Finance to allocate the necessary budget to provide those supplies.
Elsewhere in the meeting, the duties and directives of the National Center for Crisis Management, as well as international partnerships, were presented with the aim of strengthening cooperation with relevant organizations.
