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Kurdish lawmaker: Parliament speaker has a responsibility not to vote on the Passport Law
2015/5/31
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} carrying member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary Hoshyar Parliament Speaker Abdullah Salim al-Jubouri, on Sunday, the responsibility for not voting on the passport law in the parliament session, which was held on Saturday.
Abdullah said in a press statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it today, "we would have extended the legislative term last an extra month for the purpose of achievement of important laws, and although the passport law is not the most important laws that we intend to approval, but it is of great importance for the slice and a wide range of citizens in all provinces, whether in the center or the south or the Kurdistan region. "
He added, "For example, in the case of loss or passport damage was incumbent on the passport holder to go to Baghdad to get a new passport, but under the new law, which we intend to approval at the last meeting of the legislative term will be a citizen can obtain a new passport from within his province, and these facilities are very important especially for the thousands of displaced people who have lost their passports during displacement or damaged. "
He said Abdullah that "the vote on the draft law was supposed to be in session last Thursday, but we were surprised to delay the Saturday session, and we are in the Security and Defense Committee voted on six articles of the draft law, then there is disagreement about the articles of it, the first on how to withdraw the passport of the accused terrorism cases, and the second concerning the authority to give the prime minister to grant passports, and it was possible to be re-drafting of articles or amended or repealed as we do with the rest of the law, but the President of the Council decided to postpone a vote on it without any justification. "
He added that "the President of the Council bears the responsibility for the lack of a vote on this important law, It is unfortunate that the decision to extend the legislative term of the past was not successful, as we have not seen in the additional month only clashes, problems and differences."
The House of Representatives has postponed Saturday's vote on the draft passports submitted by the committees, defense and legal security law until reconsider some of its articles, which aims to Iraqi enjoy constitutional rights to obtain a passport by facilitating the granting of passports measures, and to ensure freedom of movement and line With the new democratic approach.
Parliament has ended yesterday the second legislative term to come back to resume its sessions in the first month of next July. End
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2015/5/31
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} carrying member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary Hoshyar Parliament Speaker Abdullah Salim al-Jubouri, on Sunday, the responsibility for not voting on the passport law in the parliament session, which was held on Saturday.
Abdullah said in a press statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it today, "we would have extended the legislative term last an extra month for the purpose of achievement of important laws, and although the passport law is not the most important laws that we intend to approval, but it is of great importance for the slice and a wide range of citizens in all provinces, whether in the center or the south or the Kurdistan region. "
He added, "For example, in the case of loss or passport damage was incumbent on the passport holder to go to Baghdad to get a new passport, but under the new law, which we intend to approval at the last meeting of the legislative term will be a citizen can obtain a new passport from within his province, and these facilities are very important especially for the thousands of displaced people who have lost their passports during displacement or damaged. "
He said Abdullah that "the vote on the draft law was supposed to be in session last Thursday, but we were surprised to delay the Saturday session, and we are in the Security and Defense Committee voted on six articles of the draft law, then there is disagreement about the articles of it, the first on how to withdraw the passport of the accused terrorism cases, and the second concerning the authority to give the prime minister to grant passports, and it was possible to be re-drafting of articles or amended or repealed as we do with the rest of the law, but the President of the Council decided to postpone a vote on it without any justification. "
He added that "the President of the Council bears the responsibility for the lack of a vote on this important law, It is unfortunate that the decision to extend the legislative term of the past was not successful, as we have not seen in the additional month only clashes, problems and differences."
The House of Representatives has postponed Saturday's vote on the draft passports submitted by the committees, defense and legal security law until reconsider some of its articles, which aims to Iraqi enjoy constitutional rights to obtain a passport by facilitating the granting of passports measures, and to ensure freedom of movement and line With the new democratic approach.
Parliament has ended yesterday the second legislative term to come back to resume its sessions in the first month of next July. End
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