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Chalabi: You can not give a bailer $ 27 and give half the budget of the Army
Long-Presse / Baghdad
The head of the Finance Committee of Parliament Ahmad Chalabi, to "take decisive and long-term decisions, and make structural changes to diversify the sources of national income, and reduce the role of government in the economy, and the development of an oil fund."
He said Chalabi, that "the budget priorities should be to cover people's expenses who have been displaced from their homes and internally displaced persons, and to consider the issues that have been neglected previously, "stressing that" it is not possible to continue to increase spending on security and the war budget, because of necessity requires a realistic consideration of what necessitates achieved and security point of view. "
This came in an extended interview with Chalabi , conducted by the site of Energy and Oil News (Iraq Oil Report) and followed up (range Press), against the backdrop of the continued decline in global oil prices and the implications for Iraq, at a time when Parliament is preparing to approve the current year's budget.
He said Chalabi, "The budget allocated an international oil companies operating in Iraq, it could be enough for the first six months, was to authorize the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the power to borrow $ 12 billion to pay the wages of those companies, "noting that" Parliament prefers to pay the wages of those international companies in cash and no oil. "
said Chalabi, a senior banking expert and leader Large block the prime minister, that "the Finance Committee reduced to half items related to purchases of ministries, which amounts mandated by up to four billion dollars, and considering the possibility of reducing the defense budget, particularly with regard to procurement, which was supposed to be implemented next year."
and hit the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee , Mtas scenario cut military spending, saying, "The Wall Street Journal, reported in (23 December 2014 the past), that Iraq's request weapons from the United States, during that year, about $ 15 billion, including three billion to the tank and wheels Humvee, and 175 Abrams tank, "while military analysts believed that Iraq may not be needed for those tanks now."
He said Chalabi, that "Iraq is heading for the purchase of 12 aircraft from the Czech Republic in exchange for $ 167 million, although it may not be a need to implement those purchases through current general in 2015, he has lived a severe crisis in expenses, "proving that the" assignments Avrdtha government for displaced people and displaced in Iraq of the budget, is up to 833 million dollars, and if I went back there 2.0005 million people displaced or displaced, each one of them will receive $ 27 only a month, less than the poverty line rate, which is unacceptable if we aspire giving them adequate food, living and continue life resources. "
He asked the leader of the National Alliance, "You should buy expensive weapons, or to feed refugees and displaced people, "stressing that" the current circumstances require the search for cheaper weapons expensive. "
And on the deficit, which can be caused by it, confirmed Chalabi, that "Parliament will be forced to further reduce expenses," noting that "the biggest budget are those of the defense, which nearly 27 billion dollars, and if the price of oil dropped to less than $ 50, then it will be the state revenues from $ 60 billion, does not make sense to allocate such amount for the defense. "
The President of the National Congress Party, that "the major expenses in the budget is to defend and staff salaries and retirement and the ration card and fuel subsidies, "likely" diminished energy, defense and security costs, the lack of the possibility of prejudice to the salaries of employees or retirees or depriving people of food. "
Oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil good
and called Chalabi, to "study what happened in the Kurdistan region and dealing with oil companies in ways that give Iraq a bit of clout when world prices fall, and that the profits are shared with those companies in the event of height," preferring "waiting for developments in the situation between Baghdad and Erbil, before ruling on the oil of their agreement. "
Chalabi said that "Iraq will depend on the export of 550 thousand barrels per day through the KRG oil pipeline to Turkey, because the Iraqi oil pipeline (via the connector) outside the control of the Baghdad government," noting that "the state of Iraq began to receive the Kurdistan region's oil sales revenues, and this is important because it was not already happening, and even the Kurdistan region was facing difficulty in selling its oil at world prices, and they had to offer discounts in the price to be able to sell it, through tankers to Iran and then to Afghanistan, or through Iran to the Persian Gulf. "
Promised Chairman of the Finance Committee parliamentary, that "Erbil Baghdad agreement is good for Iraq, and could be improved, and it will last from the standpoint of the budget, because it is the first time we will achieve the allocation of 17 percent is not on the theoretical side of spending, and this would continue to steadily . "
He said Chalabi, that the "agreement had to Kurdistan region that equips 250 thousand barrels of oil a day to be shipped through the pipeline, to be collected by the government in Baghdad," and expressed his belief that "the best of all that is exported any additional quantity of produce from fields the province through the tube also. "
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Long-Presse / Baghdad
The head of the Finance Committee of Parliament Ahmad Chalabi, to "take decisive and long-term decisions, and make structural changes to diversify the sources of national income, and reduce the role of government in the economy, and the development of an oil fund."
He said Chalabi, that "the budget priorities should be to cover people's expenses who have been displaced from their homes and internally displaced persons, and to consider the issues that have been neglected previously, "stressing that" it is not possible to continue to increase spending on security and the war budget, because of necessity requires a realistic consideration of what necessitates achieved and security point of view. "
This came in an extended interview with Chalabi , conducted by the site of Energy and Oil News (Iraq Oil Report) and followed up (range Press), against the backdrop of the continued decline in global oil prices and the implications for Iraq, at a time when Parliament is preparing to approve the current year's budget.
He said Chalabi, "The budget allocated an international oil companies operating in Iraq, it could be enough for the first six months, was to authorize the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the power to borrow $ 12 billion to pay the wages of those companies, "noting that" Parliament prefers to pay the wages of those international companies in cash and no oil. "
said Chalabi, a senior banking expert and leader Large block the prime minister, that "the Finance Committee reduced to half items related to purchases of ministries, which amounts mandated by up to four billion dollars, and considering the possibility of reducing the defense budget, particularly with regard to procurement, which was supposed to be implemented next year."
and hit the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee , Mtas scenario cut military spending, saying, "The Wall Street Journal, reported in (23 December 2014 the past), that Iraq's request weapons from the United States, during that year, about $ 15 billion, including three billion to the tank and wheels Humvee, and 175 Abrams tank, "while military analysts believed that Iraq may not be needed for those tanks now."
He said Chalabi, that "Iraq is heading for the purchase of 12 aircraft from the Czech Republic in exchange for $ 167 million, although it may not be a need to implement those purchases through current general in 2015, he has lived a severe crisis in expenses, "proving that the" assignments Avrdtha government for displaced people and displaced in Iraq of the budget, is up to 833 million dollars, and if I went back there 2.0005 million people displaced or displaced, each one of them will receive $ 27 only a month, less than the poverty line rate, which is unacceptable if we aspire giving them adequate food, living and continue life resources. "
He asked the leader of the National Alliance, "You should buy expensive weapons, or to feed refugees and displaced people, "stressing that" the current circumstances require the search for cheaper weapons expensive. "
And on the deficit, which can be caused by it, confirmed Chalabi, that "Parliament will be forced to further reduce expenses," noting that "the biggest budget are those of the defense, which nearly 27 billion dollars, and if the price of oil dropped to less than $ 50, then it will be the state revenues from $ 60 billion, does not make sense to allocate such amount for the defense. "
The President of the National Congress Party, that "the major expenses in the budget is to defend and staff salaries and retirement and the ration card and fuel subsidies, "likely" diminished energy, defense and security costs, the lack of the possibility of prejudice to the salaries of employees or retirees or depriving people of food. "
Oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil good
and called Chalabi, to "study what happened in the Kurdistan region and dealing with oil companies in ways that give Iraq a bit of clout when world prices fall, and that the profits are shared with those companies in the event of height," preferring "waiting for developments in the situation between Baghdad and Erbil, before ruling on the oil of their agreement. "
Chalabi said that "Iraq will depend on the export of 550 thousand barrels per day through the KRG oil pipeline to Turkey, because the Iraqi oil pipeline (via the connector) outside the control of the Baghdad government," noting that "the state of Iraq began to receive the Kurdistan region's oil sales revenues, and this is important because it was not already happening, and even the Kurdistan region was facing difficulty in selling its oil at world prices, and they had to offer discounts in the price to be able to sell it, through tankers to Iran and then to Afghanistan, or through Iran to the Persian Gulf. "
Promised Chairman of the Finance Committee parliamentary, that "Erbil Baghdad agreement is good for Iraq, and could be improved, and it will last from the standpoint of the budget, because it is the first time we will achieve the allocation of 17 percent is not on the theoretical side of spending, and this would continue to steadily . "
He said Chalabi, that the "agreement had to Kurdistan region that equips 250 thousand barrels of oil a day to be shipped through the pipeline, to be collected by the government in Baghdad," and expressed his belief that "the best of all that is exported any additional quantity of produce from fields the province through the tube also. "
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