Home
Chalabi calls Atkhamat "crucial" to diversify the sources of national income
01/19/2015 13:29
Awan / Baghdad
The head of the Finance Committee of Parliament Ahmad Chalabi, to "take decisive and far-reaching decisions, and make structural changes to diversify the sources of national income, and reduce the role of government in the economy, and the development of an oil fund."
He said Chalabi, that "the budget priorities should be to cover people who have been displaced from their homes and displaced expenses internally, and to consider the issues that have been neglected previously," stressing that "it is not possible to continue to increase spending on security and the war budget, because of necessity requires a realistic consideration of what requires to achieve From the point of view of security. "
This came in an extended interview with Chalabi, conducted site Energy and Oil News (Iraq Oil Report), against the backdrop of the continued decline in global oil prices and the implications for Iraq, at a time when Parliament is preparing to approve the current year's budget.
He said Chalabi, "The budget allocated an international oil companies operating in Iraq, can be enough for the first six months, was to authorize the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the power to borrow $ 12 billion to pay the wages of those companies," noting that "Parliament prefers to pay the wages of those international companies Cash, not oil. "
He said Chalabi, a senior banking expert and a large lead in the mass of the prime minister, that "the Finance Committee reduced to half items related to purchases of ministries, which amounts mandated by up to four billion dollars, and considering the possibility of reducing the defense budget, particularly with regard to procurement, which was supposed to be implemented next year ".
And hit the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, an example of a scenario to reduce military spending, saying that the "Wall Street Journal, reported in (23 December 2014 the past), that Iraq's request weapons from the United States, during that year, about $ 15 billion, including three billions for tanks and Humvees wheels, and 175 Abrams tanks ", while military analysts believed that Iraq may not be needed for those tanks now."
He said Chalabi, that "Iraq is heading for the purchase of 12 aircraft from the Czech Republic in exchange for $ 167 million, although it may not be a need to implement those purchases during the current 2015, he has lived a severe crisis in expenses," proving that the "assignments Avrdtha government for displaced people and displaced in Iraq of the budget, is up to $ 833 million only, and if it considers that there is 2.0005 million people displaced or displaced, each one of them will get only $ 27 per month, less than the poverty line rate, which is unacceptable if we aspire giving them adequate food and living resources and continue to live. "
He asked the leader of the National Alliance, "You should buy expensive weapons, or feed the refugees and displaced people," stressing that "the current circumstances require the search for cheaper heavy weapons."
And on the deficit, which can be caused by it, confirmed Chalabi, that "Parliament will be forced to further reduce expenses," noting that "the biggest budget are those of the defense, which nearly 27 billion dollars, and if the price of oil dropped to less than $ 50, then it will be State revenues from $ 60 billion, does not make sense to allocate such amount for the defense. "
The President of the National Congress Party, that "the major expenses in the budget is to defend and staff salaries and pensions and the ration card and fuel subsidies," likely "diminished energy, defense and security costs, the lack of the possibility of prejudice to the salaries of employees or retirees or depriving people of food."
He called Chalabi, to "study what happened in the Kurdistan region and dealing with oil companies in ways that give Iraq a bit of clout when world prices fall, and that the profits are shared with those companies in the event of height," preferring "waiting for developments in the situation between Baghdad and Erbil, before judging oil agreement between them. "
Chalabi said that "Iraq will depend on the export of 550 thousand barrels per day through the KRG oil pipeline to Turkey, because the Iraqi oil pipeline (via the connector) outside the control of the Baghdad government," noting that "the Iraqi state began to receive the Kurdistan Region oil sales revenues, and this is important because That did not happen before, and even the Kurdistan region was facing difficulty in selling its oil at world prices, and they had to offer discounts in the price to be able to sell it, through tankers to Iran and then to Afghanistan, or through Iran to the Persian Gulf. "
Promised Chairman of the Finance Committee parliamentary, that "Erbil Baghdad agreement is good for Iraq, and could be improved, and it will last from the standpoint of the budget, because it is the first time we will achieve the allocation of 17 percent is not on the theoretical side of spending, and this would continue to steadily ".
He said Chalabi, that the "agreement had to Kurdistan region that equips 250 thousand barrels of oil a day to be shipped through the pipeline, to be collected by the government in Baghdad," and expressed his belief that "the best of all that is exported any additional amount produced from fields in the region through That is also the pipeline. "
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
01/19/2015 13:29
Awan / Baghdad
The head of the Finance Committee of Parliament Ahmad Chalabi, to "take decisive and far-reaching decisions, and make structural changes to diversify the sources of national income, and reduce the role of government in the economy, and the development of an oil fund."
He said Chalabi, that "the budget priorities should be to cover people who have been displaced from their homes and displaced expenses internally, and to consider the issues that have been neglected previously," stressing that "it is not possible to continue to increase spending on security and the war budget, because of necessity requires a realistic consideration of what requires to achieve From the point of view of security. "
This came in an extended interview with Chalabi, conducted site Energy and Oil News (Iraq Oil Report), against the backdrop of the continued decline in global oil prices and the implications for Iraq, at a time when Parliament is preparing to approve the current year's budget.
He said Chalabi, "The budget allocated an international oil companies operating in Iraq, can be enough for the first six months, was to authorize the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the power to borrow $ 12 billion to pay the wages of those companies," noting that "Parliament prefers to pay the wages of those international companies Cash, not oil. "
He said Chalabi, a senior banking expert and a large lead in the mass of the prime minister, that "the Finance Committee reduced to half items related to purchases of ministries, which amounts mandated by up to four billion dollars, and considering the possibility of reducing the defense budget, particularly with regard to procurement, which was supposed to be implemented next year ".
And hit the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, an example of a scenario to reduce military spending, saying that the "Wall Street Journal, reported in (23 December 2014 the past), that Iraq's request weapons from the United States, during that year, about $ 15 billion, including three billions for tanks and Humvees wheels, and 175 Abrams tanks ", while military analysts believed that Iraq may not be needed for those tanks now."
He said Chalabi, that "Iraq is heading for the purchase of 12 aircraft from the Czech Republic in exchange for $ 167 million, although it may not be a need to implement those purchases during the current 2015, he has lived a severe crisis in expenses," proving that the "assignments Avrdtha government for displaced people and displaced in Iraq of the budget, is up to $ 833 million only, and if it considers that there is 2.0005 million people displaced or displaced, each one of them will get only $ 27 per month, less than the poverty line rate, which is unacceptable if we aspire giving them adequate food and living resources and continue to live. "
He asked the leader of the National Alliance, "You should buy expensive weapons, or feed the refugees and displaced people," stressing that "the current circumstances require the search for cheaper heavy weapons."
And on the deficit, which can be caused by it, confirmed Chalabi, that "Parliament will be forced to further reduce expenses," noting that "the biggest budget are those of the defense, which nearly 27 billion dollars, and if the price of oil dropped to less than $ 50, then it will be State revenues from $ 60 billion, does not make sense to allocate such amount for the defense. "
The President of the National Congress Party, that "the major expenses in the budget is to defend and staff salaries and pensions and the ration card and fuel subsidies," likely "diminished energy, defense and security costs, the lack of the possibility of prejudice to the salaries of employees or retirees or depriving people of food."
He called Chalabi, to "study what happened in the Kurdistan region and dealing with oil companies in ways that give Iraq a bit of clout when world prices fall, and that the profits are shared with those companies in the event of height," preferring "waiting for developments in the situation between Baghdad and Erbil, before judging oil agreement between them. "
Chalabi said that "Iraq will depend on the export of 550 thousand barrels per day through the KRG oil pipeline to Turkey, because the Iraqi oil pipeline (via the connector) outside the control of the Baghdad government," noting that "the Iraqi state began to receive the Kurdistan Region oil sales revenues, and this is important because That did not happen before, and even the Kurdistan region was facing difficulty in selling its oil at world prices, and they had to offer discounts in the price to be able to sell it, through tankers to Iran and then to Afghanistan, or through Iran to the Persian Gulf. "
Promised Chairman of the Finance Committee parliamentary, that "Erbil Baghdad agreement is good for Iraq, and could be improved, and it will last from the standpoint of the budget, because it is the first time we will achieve the allocation of 17 percent is not on the theoretical side of spending, and this would continue to steadily ".
He said Chalabi, that the "agreement had to Kurdistan region that equips 250 thousand barrels of oil a day to be shipped through the pipeline, to be collected by the government in Baghdad," and expressed his belief that "the best of all that is exported any additional amount produced from fields in the region through That is also the pipeline. "
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
