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Economic parliamentary: Remove the zeros currency in September
On: Sun 02/19/2012 10:18
Baghdad / range
announced that the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, today announced an agreement with the Central Bank of Iraq to begin the process of removing zeros from the local currency in September. The central bank had announced earlier that he is considering the requirements of the project to delete the zeros of the local currency with the Council of Ministers in terms of need process for the enactment of the organized or not.
A member of the Economic Commission Abdul-Hussein Abtan in a telephone conversation with (range) yesterday, "the Economic Commission agreed with the Central Bank to begin the process of changing the local currency in September next."
and added that "the agreement include granting the process of switching the currency for a full year to be traded currencies of old and new in the market during this stage. "
The Abtan that "the process of removing zeros from the currency will contribute to addressing economic inflation and facilitate cooperation with international banks and reduce the differences of living in society."
and described Abtan plan of the Central Bank in the subject as good, he said, "It was the bank previous experience in the replacement of the currency and thus became his experience there will not be any problems associated with the process of deleting the zeroes on the reverse of what it was the situation when you decide to switch the operation several years ago. "
and describes the CBI process of switching the currency project, the national supporter of the economy in the country, while the Government expresses Iraqi fears of the project as it will increase the phenomenon of money laundering, "according to belief," and is working to convince the central bank to stop the implementation of the project, and the Securities Commission agrees with the government's position to delete the zeros and says it would negatively affect the financial trading in the stock market.
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