An anticipated visit to Baghdad by three Kurdish committees to try to "prevent" the passage of the 2018 budget

An anticipated visit to Baghdad by three Kurdish committees to try to "prevent" the passage of the 2018 budget



Thursday, December 14

Alsumaria News / Baghdad
announced that the Kurdistan Regional Government , for an expected visit to the Committee on Natural Resources, Industry and Energy and the Committee on Finance and Investment and the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Parliament of Kurdistan to Baghdad to try to "prevent" pass the budget for fiscal year 2018 project, pointing to the formation of a joint higher committee between the Parliament and the Government of the Territory To exchange information and find appropriate solutions to problems.

The government said in a statement seen by Alsumaria News, "The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Najran Barzani and Deputy Prime Minister Kebad Talabani and their accompanying government delegation met in the Parliament of Kurdistan with the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jaafar Iminki and Secretary of Parliament, Becker Talabani and the presence of the Committee on Natural Resources and Industry and Energy and the Committee on Finance and Investment And the Committee on Legal Affairs in the Parliament of Kurdistan, which includes representatives of the parliamentary blocs.

The statement added that "the meeting discussed the options available to the government and how to deal with the financial situation of 2018, relying on the federal government or on the revenues of the Kurdistan region, the percentage of the Kurdistan region of the draft law of the general budget of Iraq, the federal revenue and production of oil in the region, The restoration of loans, the face of corruption, the reform process and ensure more transparency in the field of public revenue, especially oil and gas imports, the formulation of the mechanism required to launch the Kurdistan Fund for oil imports work and organize efforts to defend the constitutional rights of the Kurdistan region.

The statement stressed that "the two sides stressed the cooperation and coordination between the government and the Kurdistan Parliament to overcome the current situation and agreed that the insurance of salaries of employees is the priority for the work of the government and parliament, and that the reform process necessary and important, especially in the sector of public jobs and salaries and retirement, To bring a joint reform project to the parliament. "

The statement added that "it was decided at the meeting that the three parliamentary committees to visit their counterparts in the federal parliament to try to prevent the passage of the draft budget law for the year 2018, which was reduced the share of the Kurdistan region, and decided to form a joint high committee between parliament and the Kurdistan Regional Government for the exchange of information Diagnose deficiencies and find appropriate solutions to problems. "

It is noteworthy that the Kurdistan Regional Government considered, Monday (November 6, 2017), that the draft budget law 2018 aims to "marginalize the constitutional entity" of the region, while indicated that 12.6% "not enough to pay the salaries of one province" in the region.

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