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01-26-2011, 09:12 AM
26/01/2011 07:34:00 By RUDAW (http://www.rudaw.net/english/author/admin/)
http://www.rudaw.net/english/thumbnail.php?file=iraqipalriament_231240941.jpg&size=article_medium Kurdistan Prime Minister Barham Salih said he will not accept Iraq's budget draft law because it decreases the Iraqi Kurds' share of the budget.
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Salih has complained to Baghdad over Kurdistan’s share of the Iraqi budget and Iraq’s recently proposed draft law regarding this issue.
“If the draft law gets passed in its present form, the Kurdistan region’s share in the 2011 Iraqi budget will be 665 billion Iraqi dinars less than that of the 2010 budget,” said Salih to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Maliki on December 13th 2010 in a letter obtained by Rudaw.
“Unfortunately, I am going to have to make sure the draft law is not accepted in its current form, because of the draft’s numerous violations against the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government] and against the Iraqi Constitution,” reads the letter, which requests Maliki to act as soon as possible to solve the issue.
Salih also said the expenses of the top executive offices in the Iraqi government had increased “without any explanation,” and, as a consequence, Iraqi Kurdistan’s share in the budget had been reduced.
He also pointed out that the KRG’s budget for 2010 was 12.39 percent of the Iraqi Budget, while this year it had been reduced to 11.67 percent.
Rashid Tahir, the KRG’s deputy finance minister, told Rudaw that Maliki had pledged to solve the budget issues.
“After deducting governmental and administration costs, the KRG’s share shouldn’t be less than 13 percent,” he said.
Tahir also said last week’s visit to Baghdad by a Kurdish delegation, which aimed to solve budget and oil issues, had not produced “concrete results.”
“The Iraqi prime minister only promised to solve the issues, because we, the Kurdish delegation, were in Baghdad, [but] the Iraqi finance minister was in Jordan,” said Tahir. “Maliki promised that any time the KRG reached an agreement with the Iraqi finance minister regarding the KRG’s share [of the budget], he would accept it.”
Meanwhile, Iraqi deputy finance minister Fazil Nabi told Rudaw that Kurdish officials in the Iraqi Parliament had “misunderstood” the 17 percent share designated for the KRG in the Iraqi budget.
“I want to make it clear that the KRG’s 17 percent share will be given to the Kurdistan region, but only after deducting governmental and administration costs,” said Nabi.
“When Kurdish officials…say the KRG’s share has been reduced to 11.6 percent, they haven’t taken [these] costs into account, and so they are wrong. In reality, the KRG gets its fair share.”
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http://www.rudaw.net/english/thumbnail.php?file=iraqipalriament_231240941.jpg&size=article_medium Kurdistan Prime Minister Barham Salih said he will not accept Iraq's budget draft law because it decreases the Iraqi Kurds' share of the budget.
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Salih has complained to Baghdad over Kurdistan’s share of the Iraqi budget and Iraq’s recently proposed draft law regarding this issue.
“If the draft law gets passed in its present form, the Kurdistan region’s share in the 2011 Iraqi budget will be 665 billion Iraqi dinars less than that of the 2010 budget,” said Salih to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Maliki on December 13th 2010 in a letter obtained by Rudaw.
“Unfortunately, I am going to have to make sure the draft law is not accepted in its current form, because of the draft’s numerous violations against the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government] and against the Iraqi Constitution,” reads the letter, which requests Maliki to act as soon as possible to solve the issue.
Salih also said the expenses of the top executive offices in the Iraqi government had increased “without any explanation,” and, as a consequence, Iraqi Kurdistan’s share in the budget had been reduced.
He also pointed out that the KRG’s budget for 2010 was 12.39 percent of the Iraqi Budget, while this year it had been reduced to 11.67 percent.
Rashid Tahir, the KRG’s deputy finance minister, told Rudaw that Maliki had pledged to solve the budget issues.
“After deducting governmental and administration costs, the KRG’s share shouldn’t be less than 13 percent,” he said.
Tahir also said last week’s visit to Baghdad by a Kurdish delegation, which aimed to solve budget and oil issues, had not produced “concrete results.”
“The Iraqi prime minister only promised to solve the issues, because we, the Kurdish delegation, were in Baghdad, [but] the Iraqi finance minister was in Jordan,” said Tahir. “Maliki promised that any time the KRG reached an agreement with the Iraqi finance minister regarding the KRG’s share [of the budget], he would accept it.”
Meanwhile, Iraqi deputy finance minister Fazil Nabi told Rudaw that Kurdish officials in the Iraqi Parliament had “misunderstood” the 17 percent share designated for the KRG in the Iraqi budget.
“I want to make it clear that the KRG’s 17 percent share will be given to the Kurdistan region, but only after deducting governmental and administration costs,” said Nabi.
“When Kurdish officials…say the KRG’s share has been reduced to 11.6 percent, they haven’t taken [these] costs into account, and so they are wrong. In reality, the KRG gets its fair share.”
http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/3426.html