MrAustin
07-14-2007, 05:25 PM
Baghdad, Jul 14, (VOI) – The official final version of the draft oil and gas law has not reached the Parliament yet, a lawmaker said on Saturday.
"The official final formula of the draft law has not been available for legislators yet, and all the opinions given are based on the leaked drafts or media reports", Hamid Majid Mousa, the Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, said in an exclusive interview with the independent news agency Voice of Iraq (VOI).
"The Cabinet had discussed a number of drafts that later modified into a final version, which is on its way to the Parliament", he added.
Mousa added "according to work mechanisms at the House, the parliamentary oil and gas committee should consider the bill first and make recommendations on its validity and then to refer it to the legal and financial committees at parliament."
As regards the stands of the parliamentary blocs vis-à-vis the draft, Mousa said "there are varying and contradicting opinions even within the single bloc over the bill."
"There is no unified opinion within a bloc over the law and sometimes conflicting views are made among members of the same political formation for some reject the whole idea of the bill and some refuse even the idea of discussing it."
Despite these differences, Mousa pointed out, "the bill is on agenda but not within the two or three upcoming sessions."
As for Legislator Mousa's view over the oil draft law, he said "the law is significant for future Iraq as it will be a corner stone for all the country's economic sectors."
"Iraqi economy depends in 95% of its revenues on the oil, which is largest share of national income, and thus we attach great importance to the oil law and for the necessity of studying it carefully to reach an accurate and crystal-clear form that would prevent misinterpretation" he added.
"The official final formula of the draft law has not been available for legislators yet, and all the opinions given are based on the leaked drafts or media reports", Hamid Majid Mousa, the Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, said in an exclusive interview with the independent news agency Voice of Iraq (VOI).
"The Cabinet had discussed a number of drafts that later modified into a final version, which is on its way to the Parliament", he added.
Mousa added "according to work mechanisms at the House, the parliamentary oil and gas committee should consider the bill first and make recommendations on its validity and then to refer it to the legal and financial committees at parliament."
As regards the stands of the parliamentary blocs vis-à-vis the draft, Mousa said "there are varying and contradicting opinions even within the single bloc over the bill."
"There is no unified opinion within a bloc over the law and sometimes conflicting views are made among members of the same political formation for some reject the whole idea of the bill and some refuse even the idea of discussing it."
Despite these differences, Mousa pointed out, "the bill is on agenda but not within the two or three upcoming sessions."
As for Legislator Mousa's view over the oil draft law, he said "the law is significant for future Iraq as it will be a corner stone for all the country's economic sectors."
"Iraqi economy depends in 95% of its revenues on the oil, which is largest share of national income, and thus we attach great importance to the oil law and for the necessity of studying it carefully to reach an accurate and crystal-clear form that would prevent misinterpretation" he added.