FRIDAY, APRIL 3 / APRIL 2014 08:46
Twilight News / called on the United Nations envoy in Iraq, Nikolay Mladenov, on Thursday, the House of Representatives to pass the annual budget that disrupt long approval within the next two weeks, indicating that the delay in approving the law would negatively affect a lot of business and investments in the country.
Mladenov said in a press statement that "the opportunity to discuss the budget shut down during the next two weeks," stressing that "any prolongation in the endorsement carries the risk of transforming the bill to the substance of the electoral competition, and this could complicate the talks."
He added that "what we are working on now is very intensely is to find a possible settlement to allow the adoption of the budget in Parliament before the election or immediately thereafter."
He said he "stayed almost two weeks" to the parliamentarians to approve the budget, otherwise they can be transformed into an election bet increases the complexity of the negotiations.
In response to a question about the impact of the postponement of the budget for a longer period or may not come to an agreement about it through this year, saying that he "is bad for the business climate is unpredictable because it will lead to the suspension of projects."
And stumbled approve the annual budget of the state in spite of entering the country in the fourth month of the current year; due to differences between the political blocs represented in the House of Representatives, and observers fear the politicians would use the issue of delay in the budget as a factor in the election campaign for some of the blocks, as it was left on the general election only a few weeks.
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