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Iraqi cabinet meets in Nineveh amid Kurdish boycott
29/05/2012 19:28
NINEVEH, May 29 (AKnews) - The Iraqi cabinet today began its meeting in Nineveh province amid the boycott of Kurdish ministers in the government and members of Nineveh Kurdish list in the provincial council.
An informed source added that the issue of security and services in Nineveh will top the meeting's agenda.
Spokesman for Nineveh province Qahtan Sami said: "Mosul, the capital city of Nineveh province, is suffering from mass arrest campaigns, mostly random, and the detainees were transferred to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, with the presence of military pressure on the city that is increasing the suffering of the population.
"Nineveh is also suffering from the absence of services.
"Basra province takes almost double the budget of Nineveh in the Iraqi public budget and the share of the municipality of Mosul is one percent in the operational budget, although the official quota of the city is 11 percent."
Maliki's visit to Nineveh province, which is the third of its kind after the ministerial session held in Basra earlier this year and in Kirkuk on May 8, comes amid the tense atmosphere between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government.
Relations between Baghdad and Erbil worsened recently due to the harsh criticism by the region's President Massoud Barzani to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Barzani said that Iraq is heading into the "unknown".
Mosul, 405km north of Baghdad, has been the scene of armed actions since the fall of the former regime in 2003. The city is still in a state of instability despite the implementation of more than one security plan.
By Khudr Khallat
RN/DM/AKnew
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29/05/2012 19:28
NINEVEH, May 29 (AKnews) - The Iraqi cabinet today began its meeting in Nineveh province amid the boycott of Kurdish ministers in the government and members of Nineveh Kurdish list in the provincial council.
An informed source added that the issue of security and services in Nineveh will top the meeting's agenda.
Spokesman for Nineveh province Qahtan Sami said: "Mosul, the capital city of Nineveh province, is suffering from mass arrest campaigns, mostly random, and the detainees were transferred to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, with the presence of military pressure on the city that is increasing the suffering of the population.
"Nineveh is also suffering from the absence of services.
"Basra province takes almost double the budget of Nineveh in the Iraqi public budget and the share of the municipality of Mosul is one percent in the operational budget, although the official quota of the city is 11 percent."
Maliki's visit to Nineveh province, which is the third of its kind after the ministerial session held in Basra earlier this year and in Kirkuk on May 8, comes amid the tense atmosphere between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government.
Relations between Baghdad and Erbil worsened recently due to the harsh criticism by the region's President Massoud Barzani to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Barzani said that Iraq is heading into the "unknown".
Mosul, 405km north of Baghdad, has been the scene of armed actions since the fall of the former regime in 2003. The city is still in a state of instability despite the implementation of more than one security plan.
By Khudr Khallat
RN/DM/AKnew
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