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Jubouri: the possibility of reducing the salaries
April 09, 2015
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: likely House Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, on Thursday, to cut government salaries over the next two months if oil prices continued to decline, stressing that the situation in Iraq is clearly worrying, especially on the economic side.
Jubouri said in an interview with the agency, Russia Today and seen by the "obelisk" that "Iraq is going through an economic circumstance is difficult and could see the next two months in the event of continued decline in oil prices or lack of stability of a state of impasse," noting that "Iraq needs a clear program of quick action from the government may affect the low salaries. "
He Jubouri that "the economic crisis taking place in Iraq, which made him think open economic prospects or agricultural non-oil, but until now, Iraq is still dependent on oil, and the economic crisis still going on in it," adding that "Iraq has an effort to address them may be forced to other measures with the help of countries to overcome the crisis, although the situation is clearly worrying, especially on the economic side. "
The Minister of Finance has announced in a December 29, 2014 that he was directed to the Ministry of Electricity and the Secretariat of Baghdad and other other institutions for the collection of revenue from fares water, electricity, sanitation and hygiene, especially with low current year's budget with the continuing decline in world oil prices.
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