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Government intends to Basra, which met their portfolios, recently, the Prime Minister, "Haider al-Abadi" in Baghdad, back again to the capital to collect the money, "rounded" since 2013, has not been returned to the province in the current year. While Kirkuk demanded in the meeting, which brought together Abadi, on Thursday, with 15 governors, to bring out the conservative areas of the circle "militarily fallen", and confirmed that the security forces are in control at all except maintaining spend "Hawija" southwest of Kirkuk. In parallel, the officials who attended the meeting, which discussed the implementation of the amendments to the powers of the provincial Law 21, said that the mechanics of implementation of the law has not moved one step since the legislation last year. The faces of the law, which is expected to expand the administrative and legislative powers to the provinces ndash; according to officials Mahliyn- set obstacles in front of the most important application of a lawsuit revocation made under the previous government, and refused to hand over some of the political blocs "share" of the ministries to local governments.
As governor of Kirkuk, Najm al-Din Karim said in an interview for the "long" that the meeting, which brought together governors of Iraq with the exception of "Kurdistan region" with Prime Minister discussed the "popular crowd" and volunteers who support the security forces in the liberation of the areas under the control of the organization of the Islamic state topic. He pointed out that vision, "Abadi" and the heads of local governments that are going to "organize those groups" through the defense and interior ministries and local governments of the "conservative".
The meeting also called for the need to increase support to the security forces and crowds him popular in the provinces of Anbar, Salahuddin and Nineveh.
He discussed "Abadi" - according to the governor of Kirkuk several topics, notably the problem with the conservatives, "cash", and give strategic and security projects priority in government expenditures, and implement modifications 21. Law, stressing that the law, which faces a veto from the Maliki government -sabaka- agreed in each Even those paragraphs relating to the security aspect, which would allow local governments to act freely with the local armed forces, with the exception of "Federal Police" which will be one of the central functions of government.
The Second Amendment's powers governorates not organized province in which he challenged the former Prime Minister of the law, legislation angered team Nuri al-Maliki last summer, and step revolutionary for the application of the principle of decentralization, which is stated in the Constitution and has remained a dead letter, and treat Parliament after severe claims, especially from Congress Basra and Nineveh , where he participated in the writing of the amendments advisers and experts from Canada in the federal systems.
But the governor of Kirkuk, said the mechanics of implementation of this law has not moved since last year's legislation. The law provides for the transfer of nine ministries of service to the provinces, and this requires, according to the governor a long time to prepare for him and his development and transfer of personnel that will work on those broad new powers. On the other hand, said the governor of Kirkuk as he corrects the "ignorance" the government regarding the security situation in the province, which was seen by like an area under the control of "Daash", while confirming that the insurgents control only "Hawija."
The cream adds that "the erroneous perception that led to restrictions on the transfer of funds to maintain and converted in the allocation of projects as the province is safe, but this is not true."
Controlled militants organizing the Islamic state, after the fall of Mosul last June, the government and security buildings in Hawija and aspects of Zab, Riyadh and Al-Abbasi and Rashad west of Kirkuk, without resistance from security forces, which pulled out of them.
On the other hand, said well-informed views in the province of Basra had been attended to meet with the governor, "Majed Nasraoui" with the head of the government's "long" that "the local government will revert back to Baghdad after the approval of the Prime Minister to get a rounded money from 2013 belonging to the province, not launched in the current year. "
According to these authorities that "Abadi" was Mtfhma in the case of "retained the money", as it was also serious in expanding the powers "decentralization" of the provinces. As he emphasized, "Abadi" according to figures attended the meeting to be launched on the financial allocations, nevertheless deficit Balmoisna- to electricity projects and other strategic projects, and security issues.
Conversely skeptical senior member of the Council of the governor of Basra, Ahmed Sulaiti "long" in the possibility of giving wide powers to the provinces, the difficulty of attributing the cause to give up some political forces on the ministerial quotas, which fought for it for a long conflict.
Sulaiti expected that these incidents are repeated with the next government, which will not accept the transfer of powers "ministerial" to the provinces.
The Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, has presided over last Thursday, the supreme body for coordination between the governorates not organized province, with the participation of governors and heads of provincial councils and deputy ministers meeting, and said that the priority in spending in the current conditions in Iraq for projects that stimulate the economy and support the armed forces, noting that the government is seeking to create a local security systems for managing files, maintaining security, rather than the army.
As a statement issued by his office said that during the meeting to discuss the focus of security cooperation between the provinces and the affairs of the displaced, and the axis of the expansion of powers of the provinces, according to Law No. 21 of 2008, as amended.
The prime minister in his speech at the opening session that the purpose of this meeting is to the success of the provincial labor and building healthy relationships with the federal government to achieve the supreme interest of the country and the provision of services and infrastructure development.
"We are fighting a real war against terrorism should not prevent us from providing services to citizens and to support farmers and encourage investment and get the economy moving.
Ebadi said that "the financial problem that we face are caused by increased consumer spending and other reasons related to the fall in oil revenues as well as the production of low prices, but we have a great opportunity to improve through increased imports and production agreement on the issue of the Kurdistan region's oil."
And around the area of security, said, "The priority is to support the armed forces and the resolution of the war against terrorism and to achieve victory, and we aspire to remove the army from cities and delivery of the Security Ministry of the Interior, and the Federal Police to be the foundation in the future to maintain security," stressing "the need to set up a sophisticated local security system to the provinces capable of imposing security and stability and the fight against organized crime. "
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