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Parliament says Shahristani, a waterfall and decide to continue the investigation on Contracts for electricity
18/08/2011
Discuss the government program with the Ministers of Agriculture and resources .. and discussed preparations for the Hajj season
BAGHDAD - morning
House of Representatives decided the continuation of the committees of inquiry on Contracts for the Ministry of Electricity, especially fake them until after the Eid al-Fitr.
And discussed the House of Representatives at its usual 24, which held under the chairmanship of Osama Najafi, President of the Council and attended by 165 deputies, a Ministry of electricity with the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, Minister of Electricity outgoing Raad waterfall, as well as discuss the government program with the Ministers of Agriculture Izz al-Din of State and Minister of Water Resources Muhannad Al Saadi .
At the beginning of the meeting initiated by any of the Quran, it completed the Commission on oil and energy to read 26 articles of a proposed oil and gas law to be postponed after reading law at the request of a number of House of Representatives, while for the political blocs agree to it.
The deputies of the National Alliance had withdrawn from the meeting of the Council of Representatives of the opposition to vote on the draft law of oil and gas, where he said the National Alliance MP Ibrahim stapes in a statement quoted by news agency Nina: "The withdrawal of the fact that we are not convinced of a draft law that was not written by experts, but from 30 deputies. "
"It was supposed to provide the draft of the Oil Ministry building on the extensive studies carried out by experts," he said. "Banzhaibna misfire will not be a quorum to vote on first reading by reading the draft."
In the second paragraph, the Council hosted Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Mawla Chairman of the Hajj and Umrah to indicate the ongoing preparations for the pilgrimage season.
At the outset of the debate, Lord announced to complete preparations for the pilgrimage season in the field of issuing passports and renting hotels, buses and airplanes to create and secure food supplies for pilgrims and the creation operators and guides.
And detection given a problem on the Hajj this year after directing the Saudi authorities of all States to begin the transfer of pilgrims on 2 with November, while hired the pilgrimage home on 12 Dhul what would make the pilgrims without shelter for ten days, calling on the Council to find a solution to this problem.
For his part, MP on the Keywords to form a parliamentary committee to visit Saudi Arabia, in cooperation with the Commission to resolve this problem as soon as time and converting the majority of pilgrims to the road to address the problem.
And MP Baqir al-Zubaidi that the solution of the problem is to allocate funds from the emergency budget to support the pilgrimage by requiring the government to allocate funds from this budget.
The MP called Uzair maintained to know the reasons for the lack of coordination between the Commission and the Ministry of Transport in the field of aircraft leasing, suggesting the use of airports in the Kurdistan region and the coordination with the Hajj in the region to show help in the transfer of pilgrims by air.
MP Khalid Suleiman has pointed to the existence of a political problem with Saudi Arabia, which is pressing toward the damage pilgrims Iraqis and the importance of resolving this issue Abralag political with it. For his part, Speaker of Parliament that he had received an invitation to visit Saudi Arabia after the month of Ramadan, will be allocated in part to discuss the Hajj and the possibility of increasing prepare Iraqi pilgrims. In another matter, discussed the Committees of petroleum and energy and integrity, with Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Minister Hussain al-Shahristani electricity outgoing Raad waterfall, file and Ministry of Electricity and contracts with the Canadian and German companies, which raised doubts about them.
He said al-Shahristani, the mechanism that has been under contract with these two companies and how they got under the contracts, and that the Energy Commission has no financial powers to contract, but its mission technical summed raising recommendations to the Council of Ministers, noting that the amounts of the contracts approved by the Council of Ministers. For his part, Minister Outgoing electricity that Iraq did not pay one Dinar for these two companies contracted by the ministry with them after the cancellation of two contracts with them, as contracts have been canceled four other companies for the same reason, stressing that these contracts were canceled prior to disbursement of any funds to these companies.
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Commenting on the statement by the Deputy Prime Minister asked MP Bahaa al for the functions of the Ministerial Committee on Energy and financial powers to give approvals and the possibility of contracts exceed one billion dollars, and expressed surprise at the al-Shahristani, chair of the investigative committee is charged with, he says.
For his part, MP Adnan al-Janabi, asked for major international companies manufacturers of electrical plants and the possibility of dealing with them in building the giant plants in the country such as the Korean company Hyundai.
The deputy wondered why the cult who lack the ministry to the database and information on global companies and the possibility of the existence of financial commitments by the Iraqi government to cancel these contracts.
He called on parliament to the continuation of the Committees in their investigations on the matter and submit its report to the House of Representatives after the holiday.
Count and a coalition of state law answers the Minister of Electricity Raad waterfall on contracts fake "unconvincing."
The MP said the coalition Hanan al in a press statement: "The minister tried to pay the charges is not a convincing justification for being the first contract with the defaulting companies and fake."
Also discussed the Parliament with the Ministers of Agriculture and Water Resources Program the government's Bozartehma, the Minister of Agriculture the importance of privacy enjoyed by the agricultural sector in Iraq in terms of dealing with plants and animals have been developed under that plan modest in line with the crisis of water shortage experienced by Iraq and the climatic conditions are variable and this The plan will try to raise to satisfy the need of agricultural products in order to self-sufficiency.
He announced an expected increase in cereal crops in the coming years because of the actions taken by the ministry. For his part, Minister of Water Resources Ministry's plan for the coming years in the fields of the construction of small dams and barrages, such as dam Lalonde and filling a private Jay in Kirkuk and dams, the other in the eastern regions with Iran in the area of irrigation projects and reclamation projects and operating and open the river and the Ministry's projects for the drilling of wells and revive the marshes and water Aatah with Iran, Turkey, Syria, stressing that his ministry's plan includes the establishment of a Higher Council for water to solve the problems of domestic and international in the field of water.
