Parliament ruled out the possibility of financial amend the budget

05/09/2013 12:00 AM

Confirmed that the KRG did not specify what the paragraphs you want to change it
BAGHDAD - Omar Abdel-Latif


Ruled
out of the Finance Committee parliamentary possibility of amendments to
the budget bill, attributed it to lack of time. Committee Chairman
Haider al-Abadi said in an interview for "Center Brief for the Iraqi
Media Network": that the agreement, which took place between the
governments in Baghdad and Erbil is the formation of a committee to
consider amendments to the budget on the grounds Such it is up to the House of Representatives.

He
pointed out that "the Kurds if they had demands to amend the budget law
will put that and discussed by the parliamentary blocs, and therefore
if there was a consensus on the amendment, the House of Representatives
is to decide in the end the same in the case of any other law."

He
added that the Kurdistan region of Iraq has not yet displays the
paragraphs you want to modify it in the budget, has not been discussed
or raised at the last meeting.

Abadi
warned that the current year budget has passed the five months, as well
as the existence of days separating the House of Representatives for a
vacation legislative term, which will last for a month, meaning it is
not there, there is plenty of time, as this law is for one year,
confirming the possibility of holding any modified
after the discussion on the 2014 budget law and such a thing is up to
the political blocs in the House of Representatives.

And
reached the provincial government to convictions in common with the
center end of last month, which resulted in the return of its members to
the House of Representatives and ministers, in a move that paved the
way to resolve differences between the two sides since the period is not
short, especially after the signing "Agreement" resulted in finding
common solutions to outstanding problems.

And
ensure that the recent agreement between the Governments of the center
and the Kurdistan region of seven points at the center of the dispute
between the two sides, was to "amend the law of the financial budget of
the Federal Assembly for the current year 2013, and the resolution of
oil and gas law, and resolving the issue of the leadership of the Tigris
and the island, and redrawing the administrative boundaries of the
regions of Kurdistan outside the region, and
compensate with Anfal and victims of chemical attacks, and the joint
management of the issue of visas and airports by the governments of the
center and the province, and the appointment of a representative of the
provincial government in Baghdad, and another of the federal government
in Erbil for coordination and exchange of information. "

The
longer those points in the event of a permanently to understandings on
them, most which paves the steps towards drawing "scene can bring spring
to the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil," according to observers.

But the Iraqi List, saw the possibility of amending the budget 2013 until six months after the approval.
A
member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ahmed electrodes decision
of the Finance Committee in an interview for "morning," he did not know
the existence of an agreement to amend the budget law of 2013, noting
that this issue has not been raised originally for discussion.

However
electrodes that this issue if it was raised and was convincing the
members of the Iraqi List, will be voted on in the House of
Representatives even after six months of the current year. Part,
considered the Liberal block the deal that took place between Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his counterpart in the Kurdistan region of
Iraq Nnigervan Barzani,
if they do not know of it National Alliance and the parties agree it
would be non-binding it to vote it inside the dome of the parliament.

A
member of the House of Representatives bloc Abdul Hussein Rissan
Husseini in an interview for the "morning" that the agreement was
between the federal government and the Kurdistan region of Iraq on the
grounds that the Prime Minister is a component of the National Alliance,
noting that there is an agreement between the parties of the coalition
states that the political decisions of strategic taken in consultation with all parties.

He
said al-Husseini that the demands of the Kurdistan region of Iraq
relating to the decisions issued by the head of government as a decision
shaping forces of the Tigris and the 2007 agreement and the law of oil
and gas and re-vote on the item in the budget for it, the prime minister
needs to the National Alliance for the approval of the Parliament and
the Kurds know very well that the Prime Minister to convince all parties of the coalition before signing with them.


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