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Resolution of the salaries of the Peshmerga and the arm this year
Date: Monday 02/27/2012 10:08
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reported member of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, that this year will resolve the issue of granting the salaries of the elements of Guard forces of the Kurdistan region (Peshmerga), armed by the federal government. For the past five years, the allocation amounts of the salaries of forces Peshmerga in Kurdistan region of allocations Federal Ministry of Defense upon the determination of the general budget of the country, but that Baghdad does not send the budget to the province of Kurdistan, comforter of the cause to the lack of agreement on the number of such forces, in turn, should provide financial Kurdistan Peshmerga salaries.
Paragraph V of Article 13 of the general budget for Iraq for 2012 to be paid advances after agreements between the Federal Council of Ministers and the Council of Ministers of the region on expenses (salaries, armament and equipment) for the Regional Guard forces (Peshmerga) and in line with the Constitution pending the issuance of a law regulating benefits guards of the region.
According to Najiba Najib that "when approving a bill to the general budget for 2012, which was last Thursday, is not allocated any amount for the granting of salaries or arming Kurdish Peshmerga forces, but the draft law to ensure grant amount as a loan to the Iraqi Council of Ministers to pay salaries and arming the Peshmerga."
and "The Therefore, according to this law, the salaries and arming the Peshmerga borne by the federal government this year, and will be determined by the amount by the Iraqi Council of Ministers, the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan region, and will resolve the details of the implementation issue discuss between the two sides, according to a political agreement. " The contrast to the number of members of the Peshmerga allowed the province to retain them, the obstacle in front of their funding from the general budget, at a time when the region calls for the financing of about 110 thousand Peshmerga, called on Baghdad to reduce the number, and because of the continuing dispute over the number, remained the question of financing the Peshmerga stuck, and forced the Kurdistan Regional Government to the funding of the region's share of the budget and through the reallocation of some of the paragraphs in the budget of the province.
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