Najafi meeting fails to agree on dues to oil companies and representatives of the center and Erbil enter in a closed-door meeting

2013/02/27 13:45


Term Press / Baghdad

Failure meeting of parliamentary blocs, Wednesday, called by House Speaker Osama Nujaifi to reach an agreement between representatives of the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on dues oil companies operating in the region, while calling Najafi representatives federal government and the provincial government to hold a closed meeting for an hour another attempt to reach an agreement.

A parliamentary source said in an interview (range Press) that "a meeting held by the parliamentary blocs in the hall constitutional parliament building at the invitation of House Speaker Osama Nujaifi to resolve the budget bill failed to reach an agreement between representatives of the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government on dues oil companies operating in the region. "

The source explained that "the central government pledged during the meeting to pay two and a half billion dollars as receivables to oil companies operating in the region, which was rejected by the Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government Ashti Huarma asked to pay dues in full and to boost and one that is worth about four billion and two hundred million dollars" .

The source added, who requested anonymity, that "House Speaker Osama Nujaifi called oil ministers Hussein Allaibi and Minister of Planning and Finance Agency Ali Shukri and Chairman of Supreme Audit Abdul Basit Turki Hadithi addition to the Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region, Ashti Huarma to hold a closed meeting for an hour to reach an agreement, "adding that" Najafi request for a meeting of the blocks after the end of the meeting of representatives of the governments in Baghdad and Erbil to study the results of the meeting of representatives of the parties. "

The source pointed out that "Najafi pregnancy during the meeting of the Finance Committee parliamentary responsibility transfer crisis between Baghdad and Erbil over dues oil companies operating in the region to the parliament," warning that the presidency of the Council will be announced explicitly to the Iraqi public that the reason for the delay in approving the budget is the problems between the federal government and the regional government Kurdistan. "

The meeting of heads of parliamentary blocs began before noon today, led by House Speaker Osama Najafi and the presence of the Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government Ashti Hawrami and Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shawis and Oil Minister Abdul Karim Luaibi and Minister of Planning and Finance Agency Ali Shukri and Chairman of Supreme Audit Abdul Basit Turkish Hadithi, to reach a final version of the law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, after the failure of Parliament in approving a number of times.

The head of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi face, on Tuesday, the heads of parliamentary blocs to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to reach a formula the end of the General Budget Law, hours after the start of Sadr's supporters held a sit open in front of the entrance to the Green Zone, while approving the budget.

Hundreds of supporters of the Sadrist movement demonstrated Tuesday in front of the Green Zone in central Baghdad, to demand the adoption of the financial budget for the current year 2013 before deciding conversion demonstration to open-ended sit until approving the budget and attacked strongly bodies that impede approval, while cheered sitters need to give them their rights because they were "U.S. troops out of the country."

And decided to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi decided, Monday, (February 25, 2013), to postpone the parliamentary session of the 13 allocated to the vote on the budget bill financial year 2013, while accepting alliances national and Kurdistan on a final version for the payment of the oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region and the way the export of oil from the Kurdistan region as the central government want exported via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline and not through trucks, as well as to determine the quantities exported, as he emphasized that the hearing will be announced through the media.

The delay adoption of the budget is the fourth since for the House of Representatives voting session on the budget bill financial for the current year 2013, three times due to continuing differences on the law, with failure during its meeting held in the 23 February 2013, voted to restore it to the government to amend it.

He revealed a parliamentary source, Monday, (February 25, 2013), that the Kurdistan Alliance retreat from the agreement with the National Alliance, which was the first Sunday, on payment of the oil companies operating in the region to pass a law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, stressing that the Kurdistan Alliance demanded pay dues to companies once and not in the form of payments as agreed.

The Finance Committee of the House of Representatives announced, Sunday, (February 24, 2013), an agreement the Kurdistan Alliance and the Iraqi National Alliance on a final version of the budget law financial for the current year 2013, during a meeting, Second Deputy Speaker Arif Tayfur with heads of parliamentary blocs and the legal committee building Parliament and attended by the Minister of Planning and Finance Ali Yousef Shukri and Oil Minister Abdul Karim and coffee and a delegation representing the BSA, after approval of the demands of the Iraqi List, increasing the share of development of the Territory to the provinces after the reallocation of the operational budget, and demand the Kurdistan Alliance to pay dues oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region, but the batches and not all at once.

It was agreed alliances national and Kurdistan in the 19 February 2013, to pass the budget bill without reducing the share of Kurdistan annual ones, which amounts to 17%, and added that the two sides also agreed to conduct a census in Iraq during the current year for the exact percentage of the population of the region of the population of Iraq and dealing on this basis and retroactively, and the financing of the Peshmerga same previous version which includes granting advances to Peshmerga agreement between President Nuri al-Maliki and the region, Massoud Barzani, "stressing that the parties also agreed that" the payment of dues to oil companies operating in the region the same mechanism that pays the dues to companies operating in the south.

And facing the adoption of Iraq's budget for 2013, many obstacles and large While failed when parliament, in the February 23, 2013, by adopting or returned to the Council of Ministers to modify the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expressed his concern at the boards central and southern governorates, held in Basra, in the 23 of February 2013, to cause political problems that the country is going through not to approve the budget.

The Council of Ministers approved, on the fifth of November 2012, the budget year 2013 worth 138 trillion Iraqi dinars and adopted the budget on oil exports from Iraq on the basis of 90 dollars as the price per barrel.

The adoption of the general budget of the Iraqi state since the first session of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (2006, 2010) and the current session of the toughest issues facing the political blocs in each year. And result in delayed approval to the non-implementation of many projects in the provinces and mostly stopped after starting because of routine procedures in force in the disbursement of funds to the provinces.

The adoption of the general budget of the Iraqi state since the first session of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (2006, 2010) and the current session of the toughest issues facing the political blocs in each year. And result in delayed approval to the non-implementation of many projects in the provinces and mostly stopped after starting because of routine procedures in force in the disbursement of funds to the provinces.


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A tense atmosphere at the meeting of the blocks on the budget .. Kurdistan raises only the options are to vote on the budget
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Meeting saw the presidency of the parliament with the leaders of political blocs in the presence of Minister executives at the center and the region a tense atmosphere and conflicting opinions and open for previous files.

Parliamentary source has revealed that the Kurdistan region carrying two solutions only two to the cause of the financial budget and its differences with the federal government about the dues of oil companies in the region.

The source of the Euphrates News Agency {}, "Minister of Natural Resources in the province carry two solutions to the issue of the first financial budget is to pay the government $ 4.2 trillion dinars to the Kurdistan region and be part of a clause in the financial budget."

"The second solution is to sell Kurdistan oil this amount directly to the companies and receive this amount from these companies directly."

He said the two solutions is not reached an agreement on them as the oil minister in the central government announced that an amount of pent-region of 10.5 trillion dinars not paid the province to the center after selling oil, otherwise how are giving this amount to the companies and the center did not receive the proceeds from the sale of oil.

The source indicated that the oil minister put an idea on that transfers $ 750 billion dinars from the Ministry's budget to Kurdistan to be the amount in the budget for the Kurdistan region on the oil companies dues trillion and 500 billion dinars.

He said the atmosphere in the talks between the blocs was marred by tension and the difficulty of reaching a solution.

Turn the head of the Office of Financial Supervision Abdel Basset Turki said the government has no right to allocate any amount of outside tables in the budget.

He said the claims of some of the potential benefit of treasury transfers in bridging dues Kurdistan region is a violation of constitutional and legal government can not do without identified in the financial budget.

He said the solution is to restore fiscal balance to the government and to increase the dues are covered Kurdistan.

Among source said Haider Abadi, head of the Finance Committee he can not increase the budget without increasing revenues.

He added that any budget revenues and expenses and can not increase revenue without increasing expenses and that the Kurdistan region could be sent his trust funds is ten trillion and a half in order to increase revenue and thus increase the budget ceiling.

The chairman of the parliament's meeting with the heads of blocs and the ministers executives in the federal authority and the Kurdistan Regional Government on dilemmas in the federal financial budget for the current year and approval mechanisms failed.

A source familiar with the Euphrates News Agency {} Thursday that "the presidency of the parliament meeting with the heads of blocs and the ministers in the federal authority and the Kurdistan Regional Government on dilemmas in the federal financial budget for the current year and approval mechanisms, failure."

It is said that the meeting was attended by House Speaker Osama Nujaifi and his two deputies Qusay al-Suhail and Aref Tayfur and heads of blocs and the ministers in the federal authority and the Kurdistan Regional Government in addition to Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shawis


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