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Chalabi: The sum of balances stood at 600 trillion dinars with the deterioration of services and economic visions blurry
Date: Monday 02/27/2012 11:00
BAGHDAD / Ahmed Abed Rabbo
admitted MP and Congress Party President Ahmed Chalabi, the existence of a far cry between the size of the financial budgets for the years between the previous and the economic reality and service in Iraq.
Chalabi said during the workshop (dialogue with) organized by the Foundation term on Sunday:
The amount of budgets for the years from 2004 to 2012 amounted to more than 600 trillion dinars, pointing to the existence of significant financial and administrative corruption in the country.
said Chalabi: that the House has worked hard to abolish the article (25) and for turning off the loans and advances granted to the government in previous budgets, the lack of legitimacy and be considered a form of corruption.
He noted that all countries of the world is the budget for one year, adding that the government is identifying resources and after the Council of Representatives decides the amount of revenue and method of disbursement, pointing out that America and Britain have most of their income from fees and taxes.
called Chalabi establish a national oil company holding shares in the company's shares all the sons of the Iraqi people, noting that this decision is basically the most important in the distribution of wealth just to the people embodiment of the notion that oil wealth belongs to the Iraqi people.
He stressed that Iraq's income from oil is estimated 95% of its imports annual In the Constitution there paragraph states that the oil is the property of the people noting it is one of key things in the future is being exchange and financial legislation on this basis.
and between Chalabi said the discussions that took place for the first time in the House of Representatives on the budget is in the correct path pointing to the existence of some of the resolutions introduced by the government did not agree the House of Representatives and this is a phenomenon well serve the interest of the Iraqi House of Representatives shall exercise its oversight role
and noted that since 2004 to 2012 spent more than 600 trillion dinars and the Iraqi people are suffering in all kinds of services and all the elements of a decent life problem of electricity (eg the year 2002 arrived in the production of electricity, 5286 MW But at the present time produces the government less 5000 MW), indicating that this is a retreat after the reality of power in the country.
He explained that the political decisions in the province of Kurdistan, which gave way to the private sector to produce 2000 MW without the need for aid.
criticized Chalabi, the great disparity in allocations Budget The defense stood its budget 17 trillion and Education 11 trillion and Health 5 trillion pointing to the existence of more than a million people under arms, pay them salaries.
On the subject of investment said Chalabi to the presence of main issues must be identified in which the investment policy of the country by fighting corruption and to know spoiler true calling at the the same time the need to prevent the commission of corruption and not to punish the spoiler and this comes as measures taken by the concerned authorities, stressing at the same time the necessity of preparing the final accounts of the duty of all ministries to prepare the final accounts to them.
consequences of payment on credit:
Chalabi said that the date of payment term, which has done government in the years preceding pregnancy Iraq burden of large, Resolution 93 in 2011 and which stipulated that the Council of Ministers authorized the Ministry of Electricity contracted with Nina for the processing of 2500 MW an amount 3 Miliro $ 175 million and the company the banks of the Rivers for processing where the total processing the total 5000 MW for processing material kerosene Russian origin, the amount of 6 million tonnes and the payment method term for ten years without the benefits of this value means $ 12 billion this Cabinet decision was not shown to the House of Representatives and appeared later that these companies do not exist.
said Chalabi: The contracts of electricity was canceled and then contracted with two other companies also in the payment on credit and also turned out to be fake, it borrows from banks, measures a bank and these measures added to the interest rate, Bany it holds the benefit of a lot.
housing projects:
Chalabi said: In the previous years did not succeed in spending the investment budget, there is talk of a lawmaker Basmajh for 200 000 house and this is not an investment but a contract or a contract and there is another issue that the project is close to Tuwaitha in which nuclear radiation of this, another point Mandi and control the financial that the IMF to calculate the 9 trillion dollars, but they are not sure because there is a difference because the government thinks it has a 5 Trliuna.
the problem of electricity :
Chalabi said that the problem of electricity in 2002 reached 5286 MW, is now producing the government from power less than 5000 MW, adding that Iran had produced the end of the Gulf War 3000 MW now have plants built 64 000 MW and produce 55 thousand Istalmunha, in Kurdistan for example, political decisions, I let room for the private sector in Kurdistan, produces 2000 MW and without the aid Aotdkhal external Iraqi administration, the only difference is that there is a decision committed to and implemented with someone to work, and possible, and not something fantastic to happen in Iraq, security and defense.
allocations of security and defense:
and criticized Chalabi allocations of defense and security in Iraq by saying that the security situation is fragile and unstable compared to the allocations of $ 17 trillion dinars at a time, following the terrorist acts by al-Qaeda and the tails of the Baath Party.
Chalabi said that the Investment Policy Committee is the weakness and lack of strategic vision and clearly defined in light of rampant financial corruption and administrative and the absence of an accounting system supports global standards.
asked Chalabi, with respect to corruption, are they only arrest spoiler after the process of corruption and hold him accountable or most importantly prevent the commission of corruption in the first place.
With regard to the final accounts Chalabi also said that Iraq had in previous years did not have the final accounts indicating that the Ministry of Finance did not end the final accounts due to the reluctance of ministries in the provision of accounts pointing out that the Board of Supreme Audit Submitted to the House the final accounts until the year 2010.
inability of the Ministry of Commerce:
With regard to the deficit in the Ministry of Commerce Chalabi said the State Company for Foodstuff told us that the deficit 2 trillion and 628 billion dinars, and this in one company and the cause of the deficit did not inform us of the Ministry of Trade in, indicating that the Board of Supreme Audit told us that he had the company of the food that identified $ 2 trillion and 628 on the Ministry's purchase of large quantities of material oil, steel, where they were to cover the deficit of the amounts allocated to buy food for the Iraqi people and turn off the advances of the excesses in the past years in the dangerous precedent that is unprecedented.
Article 36:
Regarding the article 36 of the budget bill on the subject of buying on credit, said Chalabi said a lot of promotion that the cancellation of this article disrupt the work of the government stating that the purpose of canceling it authorized the Government to external borrowing (or payment on credit) in the sense that it kind of borrowing, as this article is the reason for the accumulation of debt on Iraq previously, which amounted to more than $ 140 billion, and this will not happen in the future because Iraq has the money, pointing out that the Constitution stressed the independence of the Bank Central and attended by lending to the government and the government should come to parliament for leave to borrow this from buying on credit, such as infrastructure projects or homes for the poor.
said Chalabi, the date of payment term that government has done in previous years, especially the Council of Ministers authorized the Ministry of Electricity contract with Nina for the processing of 2500 MW an amount 3 Miliro $ 175 million and the company the banks of the Rivers a total of total of 5000 MW, and the authorization of the Ministry of Electricity also contracted with a Russian company and the other Swiss for processing material kerosene, and this decision was not presented to the House of Representatives and appeared later that these companies do not have a canceled contracts for electricity turned out to be fake, and these companies borrow from banks, measures a bank and these measures are added price on the price of interest, company interest-free means that they bear interest at a price that gives him because the interest-free means it's a failure.
discussions:
he answered Chalabi about how to diagnose a mechanism to prevent corruption by saying : We formed a committee in the IGC it was found that the contracts entered into by the government should pass on this committee after the completion of the procedures in the ministry During the year the Committee met 75 times and approved the contracts of tens of billions did not get the case of corruption in those contracts did not Atakralaml.
But what happened then merged a committee set up recently with the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, and gave considerable powers to the minister that the contract in huge amounts. Madea to the presence of large Acodath processes of corruption are all lies in the contracts concluded by the government.
called Chalabi to the need to send the decades after the conclusion of the government to the House of Representatives, stressing the the need to launch the competition to invest in either of the amounts in the central bank has between Chalabi that the best case of cash in the bank so you must use the money for economic development. either in Maitalq the ability of the family to pay the premium residential unit built by the government Between Chalabi Sadr City, an area of 31 km square meters and an area of Baghdad, up to 187 square kilometers Mini to Sadr City, of the total area of Baghdad, 5%, but the population is 2 million, while residents of Baghdad are five million pays the premium should create a special fund assignments budget bears part of the premiums for these people either for money the provinces that have not act he carried Chalabi this responsibility the problem of bureaucracy and rampant corruption in the government Kmahml officials in these provinces, pointing out that the quota system is a B on the Iraqis.
But the division of the wealth of Iraq, he called to set up a company Iraqi oil everyone has their share and impose a tax on income Vlaepaa this stock and Aaorth noting that this proposal met with strong opposition from senior officials in the state.
and the abolition of these laws that this provided for the purchase on credit, indicating this Article 25 and Article 36 are the cause of the accumulation of debt on Iraq, which amounted to 180 billion dollars.
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