***** Abbas al-Bayati: House of Representatives holds its next meeting after agreement between Arbil and Baghdad on budget and oil

15/02/2014 09:15:00

BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the State of Law coalition, Abbas al-Bayati declared that "The House of Representatives will hold its next meeting after the agreement between the federal and provincial governments on the budget bill and oil."

Bayati told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / "an agreement reached in the enlarged meeting on Thursday , which was held in the House of Representatives between the Presidency of the Council of Representatives, the heads of the blocs, the two Prime Minister's vices and the ministers concerned , to await the arrival of the Kurdish delegation headed by Nechirvan Barzani , to hold talks with the federal government," pointing out " after the agreement between the two sides , members of the House of Representatives will be called to hold the session to first reading of budget."

He added, "the key point in the budget law relating to the Kurdish side, which is imports oil from Kurdistan and their share in the budget , therefore the first reading of the budget was postponed until the agreement between the two governments / federal and provincial / " .

The parliamentary blocs and the Presidency of the Parliament agreed on Thursday not to include the budget bill on the agenda before agreeing on points of contention. "

The MP, of the state of law, Sadiq al-Labban told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / : "The enlarged meeting of the heads of parliamentary blocs and the Presidency of the Council of Representatives , which was held under the chairmanship of Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi , ended by agreeing to host a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government to discuss controversial points about the budget with the government Federal.



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