Friday, February 18, 2011

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18/02/2011

House of Representatives "Mini" line on the budget and confirms the approval of next Sunday

Baghdad, -The President of the Iraqi Council of Representatives on Friday, said the meeting the Mini, which was held today for the presidency of the Council and the parliamentary committees related Eduard approving the budget, public finance of the country, came out the results of the "positive", including the reduction of allocations a number of doors does not affect the operation of government at the time by which to achieve the demands of citizens to increase the ration card allocations and social welfare program, stressing that the vote on the budget will be next Sunday.

Osama al-Najafi, told the Kurdish news agency that "the extraordinary meeting of the Mini, which was held today to discuss the budget came out Btaij positive, including the reduction of allocations a number of doors does not affect the work of the government at the time by which to achieve the demands of citizens to increase the ration card allocations and social welfare program ".

"The budget, which will vote by Parliament next Sunday will come out properly to achieve the demands of citizens and the economy of a growing and a good plan for the future." Adding that "the House of Representatives after his meeting with Minister of Finance and Financial Committee Deputies and experts on this area to vote on the federal budget after discussing a lot of items that met with objections. "

For his part, Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi (AKnews) "Through extensive discussions had provided details of the budget preparation, and challenges and the price of oil and the quantity exported, and how calculated, and how to calculate the amounts of operational versus investment."

He added that "part of the strategy is to proceed with the preparation of the budget to increase the amount of investment compared to the operational." Noting that "the current year budget came out 70% of the operational and 30% for investment."

He stressed that "requests by some deputies in the invocation of Article 25 of the budget law in addressing the abundance of financial status of priorities under the penalty of this article, and in case check availability should be a priority to the social protection network and the ration card and projects of ministries services, especially agriculture."

Meanwhile, member of the parliamentary Finance Committee, Abdul Hussein al-Yasiri said "Today's meeting is not limited to the current budget, but went on to discuss the policies in future fiscal years."

For his part, MP Bahaa al (AKnews) that "Today's meeting was held because of pressure from the World Bank on the Iraqi government should approve the budget of the country in the 17 month maximum, because of the benefits of World Bank loans and to cover the deficit Alkhasal in the budget of the rest of the year."

"They said that" the budget must take into account that there are about 4000 employees terminated their services due to age in the period between 2008 and 2010. "He said, adding that he" must show flexibility with the provinces that receive budget petrodollars, that the conduct of their dues every three months payment by $ 180 million and this will revive from the urban and economically developed, like Basra, for example. "he said.

He said the "Sadrist demands not to cut salaries and allowances of the three presidencies, but only the reduction of salaries and allowances of all government officials who receive about 4.2 million dollars a month." Did not name those responsible Araji.

The Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh announced on the sixth of this month, the cabinet approved the law of the federal budget for 2011, as amended, which amounted to 96.6 trillion dinars. As for the House of Representatives on the seventh of this month, the second reading of the budget law.

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