Parliament votes on the contrary to what claimed by the Kurdistan region of dues foreign companies

Author: SSJ
Editor: HH
2013/03/07 15:42


Term Press / Baghdad

Voice of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, on Thursday, on Article 24 of the law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, for the payment of 750 billion Iraqi dinars to the Kurdistan region within the dues of the oil companies operating in the region, and Hugh otherwise demanded by the province.

A source in the information department of the parliament said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The House of Representatives voted during its 13-second legislative term of the year legislative third session, today, headed by Speaker Osama Najafi and the presence 163 deputies, a majority on the article of 24 of the Budget Law Finance for the current year 2013, for the payment of 750 billion dinars to the Kurdistan region as receivables of the oil companies operating in Kurdistan, to be paid from the financial abundance derived from the export of oil or the central treasury. "

The source, who asked not to be named, said "vote on the controversial article between central governments and the Kurdistan region has been the absence of the Vice coalition of Kurdish blocs and the Iraqi List."

The Council of Representatives of Iraq, Thursday, (7 March 2013), its the 13 of the second legislative term of the year legislative third headed by Osama Najafi and the presence 163 deputies, to vote on the remaining paragraphs of the law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, while categorically coalition of Kurdish blocs and the Iraqi List session .

The session witnessed the vote, the item installed forces Awakening within the budget law, after objections to cancel during the meeting held on Wednesday, and the item to install all contract employees in government institutions, while parliament rejected a proposal by the 50 MPs, to reduce the share of the Kurdistan region of 17 % I read the House of Representatives during its meeting held on Wednesday, to 13% within the budget law.

The vote on the budget comes after postponed five times because of differences between the national alliances and Kurdistan and the Iraqi List, the failure of parliament during its meeting held on 23 February 2013, the vote on the budget bill back to the government to amend it.

A source of political beginning, on the fourth of March 2013, that the coalitions national and Kurdistan failed to reach a final formula for the payment of the oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region, despite the concession Kurds a billion dollars out of four billion and 200 million dinars, after hours to detect A parliamentary source familiar with the interview (range Press), that the Iraqi List and the Kurdistan Alliance forward new demands for the Law of the financial budget for the current year 2013, and stressed that those demands will impede adoption of the budget, warned against independent MP Othman Algehiche of "the repercussions of disapproval."

And the failure of the meeting of representatives governments central and Kurdistan region and heads of parliamentary blocs held, in the 27 February 2013, at the invitation of House Speaker Osama Najafi, to reach a final version on dues oil companies operating in the region, to resolve the budget law financial for the current year 2013, as set Najafi, next Monday, (February 4, 2013), a deadline to vote on the budget.

The Finance Committee of the House of Representatives announced, at the 24 February 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 at the parliament building and attended by the Minister 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 in batches and not all at one.

He returned the Kurdistan Alliance after, on the agreement in the 25 February 2013, to back down, demanding payment of dues oil companies operating in the Kurdistan region once and not in the form of payments as agreed. Faces approve 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, that the cause political problems experienced by the country 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.

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