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The Presidency of the Council of Representatives calling for a meeting to vote on the budget next Monday
Haider Ali Jawad - 02/27/2013 - 5:46 pm | Hits: 92
Presided over House Speaker Osama Nujaifi and the presence Qusay al-Suhail, First Deputy Chairman of the Board and Aref Tayfur, Vice President of the Council, on Wednesday, a meeting of the heads and representatives of parliamentary blocs and the Finance Committee with the participation of Rose Nuri Shaways, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Ali Shukri, Minister of Planning and Finance Agency and Abdul Basit Turki Chief of Staff financial control and Ashti Hawrami, Minister of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region to discuss the federal budget for 2013 and to reach a final version for a vote in the House of Representatives.
A statement by the Council of Representatives: that Nujaifi stressed during a meeting held in the hall Constitutional Council on the importance of expediting the vote on the budget and avoid the obstacles and problems concerning dues oil companies operating in the region, noting: that everyone is under time pressure, which requires access to a final approval budget hearing and set for a vote.
For his part, Rose Nuri Shaways, Deputy Prime Minister hoped to reach resolve on the budget and end points of disagreement and to achieve satisfactory results for all parties
The statement added: Minister of Planning and Finance Minister Ali Shukri agency, saw a discrepancy between what the province is demanding financial dues to the oil companies and the figures BSA.
As noted Abdul Basit Turki Chairman of the Board of Supreme Audit to: the inability to exchange any amount has not been allocated in the federal budget or grant advances without allocating a paragraph in the federal budget.
The statement noted: that Ashti Hawrami, minister of natural resources in the region between, that non-payment of dues of oil companies led to a great loss for the Iraqi people, especially as the total amount of the cost of profit and investment of 4.2 billion dollars and we agree on the principle of audit and not on the principle of approving payment in the case of payment of dues companies, we are obliged to restore the amounts of other companies.
And witnessed the meeting, which lasted for six hours holding the first three rounds of negotiations in the hall and the second in constitutional office Aref Tayfur Vice President of the Council and the third in the Office of Osama Najafi, head of the House of Representatives in order to reach a compromise formula for federal financial budget for the year 2013.
Then directed the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to convene a meeting next Monday for the purpose of voting on the federal budget, where would be the final decision of the council members through voting.
The negotiations are continuing between the political blocs, where no agreement is reached on the appropriate formula between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, including the foreign oil companies dues, payment method, and export volumes where conferees could not get out final format for approving the budget.
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