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Government pledges to the Kurds to pay and a half billion to oil companies dues
2.28.2013 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment -
Baghdad / Iyad al-Tamimi
pledged Federal Ministry of Oil to pay part of the dues oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region in an attempt to resolve the crisis that impede adoption of the budget, but pessimism prevailed in the corridors of Parliament from the possibility of approval soon. revealed decision the House of Representatives MP Mohammed Khalidi on a new proposal submitted Yesterday Oil Minister Karim defect to pay part of the dues, noting that he promised to pay and a half billion to oil companies from the proceeds of the Oil Ministry, noting that this proposal met with positive reactions among the leaders of the blocks. said Khalidi said in a statement to the "long" yesterday that Vice President Ministers and ministers from the coalition during their meeting yesterday were reticent on some doors allocated by the government, pointing out that the inclusion of more than one paragraph in dispute on the budget annually is deliberately by the government, pointing out that most of the blocks in the parliament exists inside cab ministerial. ruled Khalidi adoption of the budget In the absence of political consensus now, noting that the meeting faction leaders, and concerned ministers yesterday reached a tentative agreement on the payment of oil companies to the Kurdistan region, on the years that were audited by the BSA. Among the billion and a half billion dollars has been allocated Before the oil minister in the federal government will pay from the budget of the Ministry of Oil building on a proposal by the Minister and met with positive reactions from the Baghdad government and the Government of Arbil. it explained Khalidi that "the meeting of parliamentary blocs called for parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shawis and Minister Planning and Finance Agency Ali Shukri and Chairman of Supreme Audit Abdul Basit Turki Hadithi, as well as the Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government Ashti Hawrami. " and said that the meeting failed to reach an agreement between representatives of the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on dues oil companies operating in the region, As called Najafi representatives federal government and the territorial Government to hold a closed meeting for an hour in another attempt to reach an agreement. it declared the leader of the Kurdistan Alliance Khalid Shwani that "decisions of the Board of Supreme Audit, which was tasked with auditing the Region's exports since 2008 and up now we will be obligated to them. " said Shwani in a statement to the "long" yesterday that the problem is heading towards a solution, after he entered the BSA in the crisis, hoping that the Government is committed to Baghdad are other to a decision of Supreme Audit. considered block free parliamentary that the budget become "highly political", and accused some of the blocks trying to obtain financial gain for the provinces, while believing that the meeting held by the speaker with the heads of blocs in the presence of the Minister of wealth nature Kurdish was the result of a sit-Sadr yesterday in front of the Green Zone. Chief bloc Bahaa al-Araji told a news conference with a number of members of the cluster parliament building and attended by "long" that "the general budget for this year has become highly political, rather than being a professional," and accused "some political blocs trying to obtain financial gain for the region or for their provinces." explained Araji that "there is political parties do not want the budget bill to see the light in order to blame the government, "stressing that" sit-Sadr, the first Tuesday in front of the Green Zone yielded a meeting of heads of political blocs headed by Nujaifi to reach a final budget bill. " The Chairman Liberal bloc that "sit proved that the masses are stirring the House and not the latter works to serve the country." so declared cleric Moqtada al-Sadr yesterday ending the sit open to his supporters in front of the Green Zone, which was the day before yesterday to demand the adoption of the general budget for 2013, and attributed the reasons Disengagement protest to harassment of protesters. A statement of Sadr's office yesterday that "the Iraqi people protested in front of the parliament building to demand the adoption of the general budget of the year 2013 in response to a lawsuit Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr demands rights of the Iraqi people," noting that "sit came after forgetting the political blocs the rights of the Iraqi people due to the continuing differences. " The statement pointed out that the "sit-in organized by the Iraqi people to demand the adoption of the budget was silver after being sitters to harassment by Iraqi security forces." long
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