Arabic → English transcript

What will we be forced to do? We will be forced to come at the expense of

other basic things the state needs, whether raw materials or production

requirements, or anything else. Therefore we— and I have said

this and emphasized it to you— for us, the main priority is the continuation

of production and employment levels in factories, so that we do not affect,

I mean, the availability of products,

because this is what helps keep prices balanced. So we do not want to touch

any reserves,

today or any measures related to providing the production requirements and raw

materials and the medicines that citizens need. Therefore all

of us have no other way except to reduce this bill by rationalizing consumption.

And we all must understand that this is not the role of the government alone,

it is the government together with the citizen,

that we all must understand where this challenge is coming from,

and we must realize that, I mean,

we all hope that this war will stop, but God forbid, if it continues as is

being said in… The bad scenarios for a few months, how will we move?

That is why all of us are moving, we as a government,

and as I tell you there were long discussions about how, as much as possible,

we take the measures that lead to reducing the

fuel bill.