Thursday, February 9, 2012 03:39
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BAGHDAD - Haider Kazmi
A member of the Liberal bloc, of the Sadrist movement, budget 2012 as "disappointing the hopes of the Iraqi people", with the exception of a member of the Finance Committee, the parliamentary demands that hinder the adoption of Moana deduced from international conventions concluded by Iraq, while expressing a member of the Kurdistan Alliance to support its alliance all that is in the interest of the citizen, but it demanded the Liberal block provide a mechanism to implement the condition that the demands are on the ground.
The Iraqi government has approved in early December last budget in 2012 amounted to a total value of $ 100 billion, the largest budget in the history of Iraq and sent to the House of Representatives for approval but the Council did not complete the discussion and approval so far.
The percentage of funds allocated for investment projects in the budget, 35%, while the rest of the acquired operating budget, particularly on the remaining ones.
A member of the Liberal bloc of the Sadrist movement Yusuf Tai budget for this world Balmikhyh the hopes of the Iraqi people and said that the Liberal bloc did not vote upon it except in the case have been modified and agree to the demands of the block.
He said Tai in a press statement yesterday that "the bloc demanded the inclusion of three areas important to the budget as a whole in that every Iraqi citizen a payment monthly than its share of the oil and provide at least 50 thousand degrees and careers in every budget for the appointment of unemployed graduates and the distribution of fuel to the owners of generators, "stressing that" this will reflect positively on raising the standard of living and provide a decent life for every citizen. "
The Tai that "the budget for this year at random and the cause of the imbalance which is the absence of vision of a unified and lack of coordination between ministries and the presence of competing among themselves the largest share that can be obtained from the budget," calling "to activate the work of the Ministry of Planning to develop a five-year plan Asttratejah to distribute the budget according to priorities agreed upon between the ministries. "
Promised by the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Dr. Jaber Al Jabri demands of the Liberal block deduced from international conventions concluded by Iraq. He said in an interview with "the world", on Wednesday, said, "Our agreements with the IMF and World Bank provides for the reduction of the Iraqi budget, and these agreements come within the plan of economic reforms and commitment to Iraq Bouktoadtha." He Jabri "These reforms include the reduction of the operational budget and increase the investment budget and initiate economic reforms promote Baktaana the banking and hence is not possible to block the implementation of the requirement to distribute the Liberal parliamentary fuel generators free of charge to the owners of the civil matter, because this will increase the expenses of the operating budget."
Jabri explained that "the budget figures identified on the basis of energy export oil up to two million and six hundred thousand barrels, and at $ 85 a barrel, and if settled these exports and prices, and we were able to reap the difference in price if the price of a barrel more than $ 100, then we will be able to control these imports , and this is the only outlet for part of the demands of the Liberal bloc status item in the budget requires the presence and abundance of money to finance the distribution of free fuel along the lines holding the government last year, fuel disbursements to farmers on the basis of the occurrence and abundance of money ".
He Jabri "can not achieve these demands at the present time, and can not also commit ourselves to the implementation of the promises can not be achieved, but a positive verification of certain conditions."
Al Jabri said, "I think that if we were able to provide services to citizens, industry and infrastructure, decent, this would be more important than giving them $ 100 a month."
And on the objections of the blocks on the budget, said Jabri, "all parliamentary blocs have objections to the form of the current budget, but there are discussions to reach a budget agreed upon by all parties in the parliament."
Asked about the time it would take for approving the budget, said Jabri, "I think it will be approved before the end of this month because we had reached an advanced stage in our discussions. As for the demands of the Kurds, they are not new, and we can not achieve the demands of all the political blocs except for requests received to our Committee of provinces and ministries, and even these we can not implement all of them, we are bound by a budget approved by the Council of Ministers under the fixed roof, and approval within the executive branch means the consent of all the blocks it can not be increased, and we can carry only, and no objection on the wording of the budget the final it back to the Council of Ministers, noting that the budget as the current reached the parliament was restored after three times. "
For its part, expressed by the Parliamentary Finance Committee Najiba Najib (Kurdistan Alliance) support for the alliance of each project to achieve the benefit of the citizen and especially the issue of distribution of part of the oil revenue to citizens. She said the "world" "" This is a constitutional requirement, but we have asked of the mass of the Liberal parliamentary mechanism to implement and how to implement this project on the ground because we have a specific budget of 117 trillion dinars and can not increase by a penny. "
She said Najib "balancing of the Iraqi state is facing the biggest challenge with the lack of infrastructure, and demands a share of oil revenues, calls on us as well as providing schools, hospitals, roads, and the infrastructure needed to allocations of significant financial, and therefore, these claims is currently under study in the Finance Committee, We asked the rest of the committees of the Parliament to provide us with mechanisms for their application, but so far have not received these mechanisms, and did not exceed the proposals being presented to the Parliament did not get to the final decision, but we support them wholeheartedly. "
She Najib said "the President of parliament called on the federal government to submit their final accounts ahead of the parliamentary vote on the federal budget do not know how the government will provide its calculations, which we expect since 2004 and was the first to the Presidency non-receipt of the budget law of the government for the submission of these accounts, which is important to be found."
And how it can be applied to the demands of the Liberal bloc said Najib, "the only way to implement this project is to set up a fund is pumping money in which over a certain time frame based on increasing our oil exports in the future and I think that this fund is the basic unit to broadcast the soul in this project."
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