Economy Parliamentary Committee: Iraq is losing more than four billion dollars a month due to the delay budget
Alsumaria News - 02/21/2013 - 2:39 pm | Hits: 21
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
confirmed a member of the Committee on the economy and investment parliamentary Hussein Mura'bi, Thursday, that Iraq is losing more than four billion dollars a month due to the late adoption of the budget, calling quickly adopted in order to avoid losses. said Mura'bi at a press conference at the parliament building and attended "Alsumaria News", "Iraq has lost about eight billion dollars during the past two months by four billion a month due to the late adoption of the budget so far." He MP for the Virtue Party within a block of the National Alliance to be "delayed adoption of the budget on state institutions to institutions depleted the operating budget through salaries to employees of During ratio of 12/1. " and stressed Mura'bi that "the wheel of development has become disabled because of the investment budget, amounting to $ 47 billion, is sanctioned, which means that the projects under implementation parked", noting that "the loss of Iraq to eight billion dollars within two months, hamstrung opportunity run about a million and 600 million citizens, according to the theory of consultants Chinese that their country can run nearly 200 people project does not exceed cost million dollars. " and called Mura'bi to "speed up adoption of the budget to avoid further losses," and urged the Ministry of Planning to "adopt a proposal dividing the investment budget to five-year strategy for large projects, and annual small them to prevent delayed achievement. " and explained that "in light of the delay budget can not begin new projects, as well as blocking recycling excess funds from the budget last year and invested this year as approved by the Council of Ministers." and for the House of Representatives its Thursday (February 21, 2013) scheduled to pass the budget to next Saturday for lack of quorum, a postponement third of this meeting. mentioned that the decision of parliament Mohamed Khaldi announced, in (February 11, 2013), to postpone the parliamentary session of the 12 until further notice Another lack of quorum, as parliamentary source, (19 February 2013), that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to postpone the meeting of the Council of 12, to Thursday, attributing the cause to a lack of quorum.
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