Thursday, February 9, 2012 06:01
[Baghdad - where]
A member of the Commission on Security and Defense for the parliamentary proposal to form a special fund to equip the Iraqi armed forces.
Said committee member Abbas al-Bayati told all of Iraq [where] the day that the "security and defense committee has proposed the formation of a special fund to equip the Iraqi armed forces away and separate from the budget, operational and investment allocated to the ministries of security."
He added that "the Commission and after meeting with officials of the Ministry of Finance and the security ministries for the purpose of discussing the budget, and found there to reduce the deficit in the budget of the devices, which would be unable to play its role as full in the presence of internal and external challenges, which must have these devices cover the financial," adding that "the Commission Parliamentary Defense will push for a financial transfers to increase appropriations for the machines in its support. "
The government had approved in early last December's 2011 budget in 2012 amounted to a total value of [100] billion dollars, which is the largest budget in the history of Iraq, according to government agencies.
And distributed the financial budget for Iraq for 2012 by 68% for operational projects, while 32% went for the investment budget.
The House of Representatives has completed at its sixteenth session in 31 of the month January to read the draft general budget of the country in 2012. Ended 2.
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