January 27, 2010
84 trillion dinars the current year budget
Samurai: Parliament may hold a special meeting to vote on important laws
بغداد - الصباح BAGHDAD - morning
Chamber of Deputies passed the federal budget for the year 2010 financial expenditures of more than 84 trillion dinars.
Parliament voted at its regular twenty-ninth held yesterday, chaired by Dr. Iyad Samarrai, a majority of the budget law.
According to a statement issued by the information department of the Council of Representatives that the budget revenues are estimated at (61735312500) thousand dinars (sixty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five billion, three hundred and twelve million five hundred thousand dinars), is allocated an amount of (84657467556) one thousand dinars (four and eighty thousand and six hundred and fifty-seven billion, four hundred and sixty-seven million five hundred and fifty-six thousand dinars) for expenditures for the fiscal year / 2010 is distributed and the amount of $ (23676772604) one thousand dinars (three and twenty thousand, six hundred and seventy-six billion seven hundred and seventy-two million six hundred and four thousand dinars) for the expenses of the investment projects, and the amount of $ (60980694952) thousand dinars (sixty thousand, nine hundred and eighty billion, six hundred and ninety-four million nine hundred and fifty-two thousand dinars) for operational expenses.
The total planned deficit of the public budget amounted to $ (22922155056) one thousand dinars (two and twenty thousand nine hundred and twenty-two billion, one hundred and fifty-five million and fifty-six thousand dinars) that covers the shortfall of cash retained from the Federal budget for the year / 2009 and from internal and external borrowing . The president of the parliament after the vote on the budget end of the second legislative term, declaring that he will be called for an extraordinary session in case of agreement to vote on the draft laws necessary.
The head of parliament, had made at the beginning of the meeting condolences to the families of the martyrs who were killed in bombings in Baghdad yesterday and yesterday, condemning these criminal acts, stressing the need for continuing efforts to deal with criminal gangs.
MP Falah Hassan Chanchal resolve the issue of candidates for membership of the accountability and justice, noting that the candidates had been duly brought before the Committee on Justice and Accountability in the House of Representatives to the Council of Ministers for approval on the nomination and presenting them to the House of Representatives to approve them.
For his part, al-Samarrai had been agreed at the meeting of the governing bodies of the three on the necessity of deciding the issue of candidates for the body.
In another matter, MP Mohammad Haidari, the head of the Human Rights Committee approval of the Committee of Experts for the selection of candidates for members of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, noting that in the letter from the Ministry of Human Rights shows that there are 18 thousand detainees to the Iraqi security services and 13 other people are condemned.
Haidari noted the existence of serious violations in detention centers and prisons, pointing out that the phenomenon of torture began to escalate in recent times and some not released, but by offering bribes.
He announced that the Human Rights Commission formed a committee to investigate these issues, urging the government to pay attention to this matter.
The placeholders Janan al-Obeidi had made it clear that there are detainees at the U.S. side has not yet been handed over to the Iraqi side, for his part, MP Hassan Othman, said that there are dozens of detainees have spent years in prison in Kadhimiya have not been prosecuted, calling for an application to the judicial authorities for prosecution, MP Nassar al-Rubaie has made several proposals on the detainees, including timelines for the inmates to the courts and the verification of the reason for the failure to release acquitted of Iraqi courts and the formation of a committee of the political blocs that supported security agreement to determine the number and reasons for the survival of detainees in U.S. custody.
The head of parliament that the Presidency supports the efforts of the Commission on Human Rights, calling for a detailed report and the need to make sufficient efforts regarding detainees in coordination with the concerned authorities.
And ended the parliament on the second reading of the proposed law on the care of orphans fund, which was endorsed by the House of Representatives as its importance in the injustice of the orphans of Iraq, and completed the second reading of the draft law the Federal Supreme Court.
And the return to file the budget, said leader of the Iraqi National Coalition MP Hammam Hammoudi: The "Our proposal to link 115 thousand jobs are coming to the Council of the service are not used for electoral purposes."
Hamoudi said in a joint news conference with some deputies of the National Coalition Following the adoption of the draft budget yesterday that: "Our proposal was agreed upon by most members of the House of Representatives, but that he hoped to benefit from it."
He announced, "the allocation of one dollar for every barrel of oil to the oil-producing provinces," indicating he was "presidencies pay cut by 20 percent and House of Representatives by 10 percent, because the salaries in Iraq compared to the large developed countries."
For his part, MP Hassan Shammari said: "The National Coalition with institution-building, and relocation of these jobs as not to politicize politicized ministries, in order not to find the Iraqi citizen this job, but in the case of belonging to a political party."
However, MP Sami al-Askari said the Iraqi National Coalition arrested appointments included in the budget of $ 115 thousand and linked to the Council of the appointment of federal service.
He said in a news conference yesterday: "These appointments will cease until the formation of the next government," indicating that "those who will stop it by issuing justifications",.
He added that "Stop the appointment of 115 thousand families who intended to not be used as an achievement of the government," explaining that "the disruption that took place in the budget was for the interests of election.
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