Saturday, February 18, 2012

The Iraqi government warns of the continued delay in approving the budget until the end of the month

18/02/2012 13:26

Baghdad, February 18 (Rn) - warned the Iraqi government continued to disable approval of the budget in 2012 emphasizing the need for parties agreed during the current month.

The value of the budget in 2012 that approved by the government in the 5 of December / Dissembrmen last year, $ 100 billion, and a deficit of up to $ 13.5 billion, and focused on the energy sector and the oil phase of the first, and then the security sector, and then the education sector, education and health.

The Government has adopted the Iraqi oil price of $ 85 basis, and expect, through differences in the price of oil, to cover more than $ 10 billion deficit.

And imposes a financial budget to Iraqi ministries and government bodies to provide financial Khovatha in the first quarter of next year following the budget year. According to the Iraqi Council of Representatives, it had not seen the final accounts since 2005 until now, government blames for not submitting the final accounts prior to the unstable conditions experienced by the country.

And carried the Ministry of Finance earlier in the ministries and government bodies responsible for non-submission of financial statements for the budgets of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 due to the unjustified neglect in the provision of final accounts for the financial expenses.

According to the parliamentary finance committee that the Iraqi Council of Representatives will approve the budget in 2012 only after the send accounts for the years 2004-2010.

The head of the advisory board Thamer Ghadban told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) on "the Iraqi parliament has to approve the Aatakhr in the state budget more than a month to Yecebb problems that hinder the development and implementation of service projects is difficult, after all."

He added that "the adoption of the budget must be based on professional and stay away from political history that are harmful to the economy of Iraq."
He said: "We do transfers must make it clear that on the basis of the implementation of key projects and services developed by the government according to its plan to implement during the year."

Iraqi cities and need money desperately to build its infrastructure destroyed by years of war, sanctions and violence.

The protesting citizens on an ongoing basis on the lack of basic services that have not been able to successive Iraqi governments have provided despite the passage of nearly nine years to overthrow the former regime.

And ensure the activation of the budget in 2012 granting financial loans to citizens for the purposes of housing and farmers without financial benefits which may make them a way to find real solutions to the housing crisis and revitalize the agricultural sector.

And the expected adoption of the budget release 59 thousand degrees and across functional ministries and government institutions, which means to reduce unemployment rates in the country, which according to official sources, up to 15%, but a civil and international organizations say that the ratio is greater than that.

Link

No comments: