Dispute over Iraq's federal budget is technical, legal: source
Tuesday, January 25th 2011
Baghdad, A member of the Iraqi parliament for the National coalition stressed on Tuesday, that there are some differences on Iraq’s federal budget of 2011, and these differences occur each year during the budget voting.
The MP , Kamal Saadi told AKnews that a part of the dispute over the budget is related to the measurements allocation and the other part is related to what Kurdistan produce of oil “, adding that "there is disagreement over the operational and investment paragraphs as some want giving preponderance to the investment more and others want the operational. "
"Some differences are technical and some of them are legal," adding that “Kurdistan delegation that visited Baghdad recently contributed in solving some of these problems”.
The federal budget for Iraq for 2011 is about 95 trillion Iraqi Dinars, and the share of the Kurdistan region is 17%, according to a political agreement between Baghdad and Erbil until holding the general population census in the country, the proceeds of Iraq adopts on 95% of oil imports.
The Iraqi parliament has postponed its session in the 18th of January to hold it in the 30 of the same month.
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