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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 06:49
Oil and energy: government interference in the independence challenged Transparency Initiative
BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya News / .. take a parliamentary official and a leading oil in the Kurdistan Alliance that the prominent role of the executive power in the initiative of transparency in the extractive industries challenge the independence of the initiative.
Said Farhad Atrushi member of the Commission on oil and energy in the House of Representatives and leader of the Kurdistan Alliance in a statement to the reporter / Baghdadiya News / "The attendance and support government and played characters in the executive branch of the prominent roles in the initiative calamine General of the Council of Ministers calamine General of the Council of Ministers challenged the independence of the initiative, in addition to the fact that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's representative was present at the ceremony hosted by the Transparency Initiative at the headquarters of the Ministry of Oil Hussein al-Shahristani, his deputy. "
In response to what the Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani in his speech at the celebration of the initiative and call for the Qaúmin by monitoring the extractive industries in the Kurdistan region in particular, commented Atrushi "Here lies the seriousness of the lack of independence, so organizations, when transformed into securities political pressure on the party or the party, and transparency required to attend the Chief Executive as a guest and not as an influential and router, and yet we have no objection to any party control of both Transparency Initiative this or any organization other civil society that explore the transparency and work professionally, on the basis of our readiness to cooperate with all regulatory authorities. "
He Atrushi "When you become so organizations a tool of executive power, it will not play its real, and we hope to have this organization and other positive role to monitor the performance of the government, but experience has shown that it can not when the organization is not independent," calling based on the Transparency Initiative to maintain their the financial autonomy of their organization in particular. "
And Atrushi that "the audit work in the oil sector is very difficult so we are a parliamentary committee, we face many difficulties in access to information despite the allegations, calling in the media about the readiness of the disclosure but once we start to exercise our oversight role we face many difficulties, how the Organization of civil society working in the sensitive subject in the oil sector, so I expect the initiative to face so many difficulties. "/ Finished / 26 /
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Oil and energy: government interference in the independence challenged Transparency Initiative
BAGHDAD / Baghdadiya News / .. take a parliamentary official and a leading oil in the Kurdistan Alliance that the prominent role of the executive power in the initiative of transparency in the extractive industries challenge the independence of the initiative.
Said Farhad Atrushi member of the Commission on oil and energy in the House of Representatives and leader of the Kurdistan Alliance in a statement to the reporter / Baghdadiya News / "The attendance and support government and played characters in the executive branch of the prominent roles in the initiative calamine General of the Council of Ministers calamine General of the Council of Ministers challenged the independence of the initiative, in addition to the fact that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's representative was present at the ceremony hosted by the Transparency Initiative at the headquarters of the Ministry of Oil Hussein al-Shahristani, his deputy. "
In response to what the Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani in his speech at the celebration of the initiative and call for the Qaúmin by monitoring the extractive industries in the Kurdistan region in particular, commented Atrushi "Here lies the seriousness of the lack of independence, so organizations, when transformed into securities political pressure on the party or the party, and transparency required to attend the Chief Executive as a guest and not as an influential and router, and yet we have no objection to any party control of both Transparency Initiative this or any organization other civil society that explore the transparency and work professionally, on the basis of our readiness to cooperate with all regulatory authorities. "
He Atrushi "When you become so organizations a tool of executive power, it will not play its real, and we hope to have this organization and other positive role to monitor the performance of the government, but experience has shown that it can not when the organization is not independent," calling based on the Transparency Initiative to maintain their the financial autonomy of their organization in particular. "
And Atrushi that "the audit work in the oil sector is very difficult so we are a parliamentary committee, we face many difficulties in access to information despite the allegations, calling in the media about the readiness of the disclosure but once we start to exercise our oversight role we face many difficulties, how the Organization of civil society working in the sensitive subject in the oil sector, so I expect the initiative to face so many difficulties. "/ Finished / 26 /
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