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Parliament decides to continue to read the law the Policy Board
13/08/2011
In a session that saw different opinions and debates
BAGHDAD - morning
Ended the House of Representatives first reading the draft law to the National Council of the Supreme policies, scheduled to continue in the legislation, this law despite the opposition of many of the deputies to him. In the regular session 19 of the parliament, which convened under the chairmanship of Osama Najafi, President of the Council and attended by 187 deputies, the parliament voted on the House Oversight Committee members to Article 140 of the Constitution .
The Truth
In another matter, given the fact finding committee preliminary report on matches the Development Fund for Iraq, the DFI, which indicated that it held 8 meetings considered which determine the functions of the precise diagnosis of the steps and procedures and information necessary to accomplish its mission and based on this selection, it was considered that the type of information required and sources of access to and addressed in order to achieve that the Iraqi Central Bank and Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Oil, in addition to the Ministry of Commerce. Since these tasks are so large and the details large, the Committee decided to engage the assistance of millions for the advancement of this task and determine a period of six months, renewable for implementation with effect from the first of this August.
Policy Board
And ended the House of Representatives readers e first bill of the National Council of the Supreme policies, which came in its rationale (based on the political agreement and in view of the urgent need for coordination and policy-making senior management of the state in order to achieve participation in the unity of decision, on the basis of dialogues and understandings between the various national forces and the consensus opinion of the need to establish a national council to achieve the goals of national reconciliation and out of the sectarian conflict and creating an appropriate atmosphere for the community welfare).
Were made about the first reading of the law of different reactions by the House of Representatives between supporters and opponents of the law.
The MP Adnan al-Janabi said the law came to a national necessity after what the political process has reached a crisis after the parliamentary elections.
For his part, MP Khalid al-Attiyah noted that the political process to complete, and that all parties represented in the government, noting that there is no need for this law, which marred the constitutional violations.
MP Mohsen al-Sadoun has acknowledged the existence of constitutional violations in some paragraphs of the law, but it could be addressed in the second reading.
For his part, MP Ibrahim al-Jaafari said the law comes within the constitutional limit, explaining that the law will address the gaps in the House. Wade MP Salman Jumaili Mazhb MP Jaafari returned to him the law was born to a national necessity and a single session.
MP Bayazid Hassan has said that the law deprived the other of the blocks involved and the limited participation at the four large blocks, considering it unfair and marginalized them. After the Council voted in principle to continue to read the law.
It is said that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said is not convinced the Council of strategic policies at a time when the state of the feminine.
Maliki said in an interview on satellite Sumerian yesterday: that «an institution (the Council strategic policies) will not be more than an advisory status is heading to the feminine state, I do not think it should be», saying «dissatisfaction with this board and especially with the atmosphere of a solution slack in the institutions State ».
He said al-Maliki: «As long as we had agreed on the Council's decision did not occur between the compatible to cancel, we will go in, but it meets the constitutional», saying that «this is the case Ardaúah and does not have any role in solutions that hinder the political process».
He also pointed out that «if there are serious adopters of this Council away from other goals, also subject to contribute to and provide visions of economic, political, go to the constitutional institutions to be discussed in light of the realities existing», pointing out that «the benefit of this Council will not be the size of the problem raised by» .
Article III of the Code of the Policy Board that the purpose of establishing the Council is to contribute actively to resolve the contract that hinder the political process in Iraq and the guidelines of the Supreme policies of the state, and to make recommendations and proposals on legislation and laws and on the reform of the judicial system in accordance with the constitutional contexts.
It also includes terms of reference for the Council to provide proposals for legislation important laws in accordance with the constitutional contexts, and discuss the conventions and treaties strategy related to security, defense and the country's sovereignty and opinion, and make proposals to amend the laws in force and in particular of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council. The membership of the Council of the President and his deputies, the President Council of Ministers, his deputies, the President of the Council of Representatives and his deputies, the President of the Kurdistan region, and the President of the Supreme Judicial Council, two members from each of the four main blocs.
Tariff
The president of the Parliament to postpone the first reading of a proposed oil and gas law.
The Finance Committee completed the second reading of the draft law of the First Amendment to the Customs Tariff Act No. 22 of 2008.
The focus of the views of MPs on the importance of law, where the MP Kanna to postpone a major blow to Iraq's product as it is not surprising in the interest of the country calls being postponed due to Iraq's resources to the task to be reckoned with.
The MP called on Najib to Najiba media campaign on the law for the purpose of showing him interest from the poses the economic resources of the country.
Confirmed the MP Hanan al that the abolition of the law shows the Iraqi industry and agriculture to certain death, noting the possible exception of some material from the imposition of tariffs, while MP Ahmed Chalabi that the imposition of tariffs to Aihama industry only, but is to protect the consumer also creates a state of balance required economically.
She Rep. Nahida Daini that the victim in the issue of tariffs is the Iraqi farmer because of the policies of neighboring countries to plunge the Iraqi market through the introduction of different materials and other corrupt to the Iraqi market, confirming it with the application of tariffs due to its economic benefits. The deputy wondered Sabah al-Saadi for the legal rationale behind the delay in application of the law despite the vote of the Council last year.
For his part, MP Abdul-Hussein Resan to the imposition of tariffs would hurt most of the members of the Iraqi people, especially on the subject of food.
MP Baqer al-Zubaidi was considered that the non-application of the law would prevent Iraq's entry into the WTO.
Host's human rights minister
In the second paragraph, the parliament discussed with Mohamed Xiaa Sudanese human rights minister and the government program and prepared by his ministry's plans and procedures with respect to file human rights in Iraq.
The minister of the nature and mechanism of action of the ministry and the circumstances that led to the formation after the fall of the former regime, as Minister spoke about the main goals of the ministry's work and activities carried out in areas that are specific to such issue of human rights in Iraq, mass graves and the detainees and the files of prisoners and missing persons.
Turning MP Salim al not to meet the government program of the Ministry of the main demand being given to the ministry, the file of human rights in Iraq, where he was Bgenh significantly and was briefly without any attention.
He called Jubouri ministry to prepare a calendar and a clear and real about the UN report on human rights in Iraq, stressing that the ministry did not give a file of women any attention in the ministerial program, while MP Khalid Djiashi to be a ministerial program more detail, asking the ministry to reveal its position on the international reports on the subject of human rights in Iraq, and demanded to know the actions taken by the ministry on compensation for citizens by the bombing of the Turkish and Iranian border areas of Iraq.
He called Haider Mulla to increase the allocations of the ministry level achieved when all their plans, adding that the ministry's program more like wishful more than mechanisms carried out by the ministry. And asked the deputy of Osama beautiful on the subject of compensation to the families of the victims of Anfal and Halabja and the coordination between the Ministry and the Kurdistan Regional Government and the possibility of opening an office there.
MP also asked for an inch to provide the Ministry a report on human rights in Iraq.
For his part, considered the human rights minister questions of Representatives to express their concern on human rights after long suffering incurred by the Iraqi people during the previous periods, declaring that the reports of his ministry on prisons and human rights in conformity with the international reports, pointing to the existence of branches of his ministry in all ministries. The minister stressed that there Many of the loopholes in the law of mass graves, calling for its amendment, stressing the limited staffing specialist to open mass graves, consisting of 24 people only have been trained outside Iraq. He pointed out that there is coordination with the KRG on prisoners and prisons, also confirmed the presence of teams affiliated to the ministry, make unannounced visits to detention centers and jails, have returned any detention center under the Ministry of Justice, the center is illegal.
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