Kurdistan Alliance: We will not vote on the budget unless th

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Kurdistan Alliance: We will not vote on the budget unless there is a political consensus on the outstanding observations

Baghdad, February 1 (Rn) – The Kurdistan Alliance, Wednesday, he will not vote on the budget in 2012 unless there is political consensus on the observations raised regarding the draft budget, indicating that the government is obliged to apply what is a vote of the vertebrae in the budget by the House of Representatives .

The three committees negotiating a joint between Baghdad and Erbil, ended in October last negotiations in Baghdad on the outstanding issues and raised the three reports to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The reports dealt with the most outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil is one of the disputed areas, the budget of the Regional Corps (Peshmerga), and the law of oil and gas.

A member of the coalition Najiba Najib told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), “The Kurdistan Alliance put his remarks on the budget in 2012 and unless it gets a political consensus on these observations, it did not vote on the budget.”

The Iraqi government has approved in its emergency meeting on the fifth of last month’s budget in 2012 which amount to 100 billion dollars (about 117 trillion Iraqi dinars) and a deficit of up to $ 13.5 billion (about 17 trillion dinars).

She explained Najib is a member of the parliamentary finance committee that “the observations is the need to implement the government to the paragraph began rated since 2007 in the budget, the granting of the Frontier Corps (Peshmerga) budget allocation within the system on account of Iraqi military.”

She said Najib to “note the other relating to the need to increase financial allocations relating to Article 140 of the constitution, in addition to the cancellation paragraph of the 14 IV of the budget included authorize the Minister of Finance to deduct the full amount of money from the regions and provinces that have not been able to export the required quantity of them,” noting that “the This paragraph is not replaced in the budget, but require the enactment of its own. “

And the recently strained relationship between Baghdad and Erbil, after he refused the draft Kurdistan Region Oil and Gas Law approved by the Iraqi government. He says the region that the draft law, however, focus the powers of the Federal Government in the management of oil wealth at the expense of the provincial territory, as he passed by the Council of Ministers, without due process of law.

Under the terms of a Erbil agreements, provided that he agrees on the law of oil and gas, but the region accuse the National Alliance circumvent the conventions and pass the bill without taking the position of the Kurds.

The roots of the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil to oil contracts had been entered into the region with international oil companies without the consent of the Federal Oil Ministry contracts that were considered “invalid” and contrary to the Constitution

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