Saturday, April 21, 2012
Iraqi Finance reveal the formation of a committee to resolve differences with the Kurdistan budget allocations and Peshmerga
Revealed the Iraqi Finance Ministry on Saturday, the formation of a committee with Kurdish counterparts to address the differences of the annual budget and the allocation of the Peshmerga, while confirming the lack of financial problems with the province, pointed out that the differences are concentrated with the three federal ministries.
The Deputy Minister Fadhil Nabi's "Twilight News", "The Federal Ministry of Finance has agreed with its counterpart in Arbil to form a committee to resolve differences between the province and Baghdad, with respect to the annual budget allocations and the Peshmerga."
The dispute centered Pt_khassaat Peshmerga and the financing of the general budget of the number of individuals allowed to retain the province.
The provincial student funding about 110 thousand Peshmerga, but opposed the Baghdad and called for reducing the number, called the provincial government to be funded from the budget share of Kurdistan and through the reallocation of some of the paragraphs in the budget.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance said, "Any problems with the financial Kurdistan does not exist as stated by some, but that all financial disputes with other ministries such as defense, interior and planning."
And confirms the experts in the field of oil and the economy on the need to develop a road map to get rid of the outstanding problems and the separation of the political differences for the economic differences between Baghdad and Erbil.
The officials agreed in the Kurdistan Region with the Iraqi government, since 2004, that proportion is allocated 17 percent of the country's budget for the provinces of the region, until a census which is to identify the proportion of the total population of the province to Iraq, and determine the budget accordingly.
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