6/19/2015
Erbil, June 19 (PNA) - Deputy Kurd in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, yesterday, that a delegation from the Government of the Territory will travel next week to Baghdad on a recent visit, to discuss the issue of the region's budget and the agreement concluded between the two sides in order to reach a solution.
Said Ardalan Noureddine, Deputy Kurdish in the Iraqi parliament, told the «Middle East» not «solved yet problems between Erbil and Baghdad, did not apply the general budget and the agreement concluded between the two sides Act, so will travel next week a delegation from the Government of the Territory for the last time to Baghdad, to discuss these problems with the federal government, and we hope that there will be real results of these talks », noting that the delegation of Government of the Territory consists of the Minister of Natural Resources, drastically, and Finance Minister Rebaz Mohammed, pointing out that he has not been confirmed whether will be chaired by the President of the Government of the Territory Nechirvan Barzani whether or not the delegation.
In turn, Dilshad Shaaban, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in the province's parliament, said that «the Kurdistan Region of Iraq people and international public opinion and the United States and the United Nations they arrived to believe that Baghdad is that you do not want to solve problems with the region, which want to continue this crisis in Kurdistan, for political reasons, Vakulaim Kurdistan oil delivered according to the agreement and the law now to Company (SOMO), but they do not meet their obligations and sent to the territory of its budget, which was agreed upon by the general budget for Iraq for 2015 Act, and previously was Baghdad used the Territory's budget-card political pressure » .
He stressed Shaaban said: «But now we can the oil that we have to provide the Territory's budget by selling independently, and the declaration of economic independence for the region, does not imagine that the United Nations and the United States will stand against this step, because we can not afford more than that, and we are not forced to pay successive Iraqi governments errors that have brought Iraq to the level that it is today tax », stressing the completion of each special economic measures for independence for the region was left only for the decision.
Live region II and the year, and the second Ramadan, a severe economic crisis caused by cutting the former Iraqi government for the budget of the region and the salaries of its staff, despite the signing of the KRG oil agreement with the current Iraqi government late last year, Baghdad has not fulfilled yet its obligations direction of Erbil, did not send the region's share of the the general budget, which has led to the continuing economic crisis in Kurdistan, especially with the presence of some two million displaced Iraqis in it, and under the weight of this economic blockade stopped the majority of economic, industrial and reconstruction projects, as well as employees' salaries are the disposal of every three months time, which would impact on the market movement.
Saman Izz al-Din, a citizen Kurdish occur during his wandering in Erbil markets for their suffering due to the embargo, saying: «For over two years and we are still suffering from difficult living conditions due to late payment of salaries, I work a teacher and my wife employee and Natah on salary Ntzlmh of government, as well as we inhabit in Rent House and delayed salaries constitute us embarrassment in front of the house owners for not enable us to pay the rent on time, where today received salary of the month of April and we are now in mid this case reflected negatively on our daily lives and caused us a lot of problems, where we are committed to pay premiums to the needs we bought the house, we are also puzzled how we spend the month and Bzmtna Astkarznaha amounts to buy their daily strength. »
For his part, he said home Peer beautiful, that «the Iraqi government has exercised against us the worst repressive policies over the centuries, and now it's time to say our word, we do not want to control Baghdad by our own power and exercise political pressure on the region under the pretext of budget and oil and continuity Bamaammeltna as second class citizens and others, and the region to declare economic independence and sells its oil independently. »
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