Sunday, February 24, 2013

Secretariat of the Council of Ministers: the budget is an important document which is read philosophy of the state and its economic system

Sunday, February 24

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The secretary general of the Council of Ministers Ali Mohsen Ismail said the state budget is an important document which we can read the philosophy of the state and its democratic system and economic and financial policies.

A statement of the General Secretariat received and all of Iraq [where] a copy of it today Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, he stressed in a speech at a workshop hosted by the Institute of economic reform on the state budget, "We're not in front of detecting graph just but by reading the minutes of the budget we can Nacher What meant orientations associated with more actors and factors affecting the economic and social reality and political. "

He said the "reference ongoing budget and looking at it through the democratic political system and monitoring achieve this system, which was built on the basis of participation in the implementation and accountability and oversight, as well as the amount to be achieved transparency, which represents an important pillar of the pillars of the democratic system."

And Ismail, according to the statement that he "can not achieve a high level of relationship between the authority and the public that this does not happen is an indicator of malfunction, in addition to what we can offer good governance in the provision of programs and plans and clear goals relating to various aspects.

He noted, "We are through the budget can recognize the role of the state in the distribution of income which is of economic and social dimensions and development, stressing the need to adopt tab and methodology in the preparation of the budget and show it legibly regulators, legislative and financial management and control. Suggesting that there's promises from the Ministry of Finance and collaboration with specialized international organizations to accomplish this and the adoption of the link between the budget and the aspects highlighted by the government program and verification ratios between paragraphs of the budget and allocations.

The statement continued, "The workshop was led by Mehdi al-Hafez, former Minister of Planning and attended by a member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Haitham al-Jubouri, and a number of specialists in the financial and economic aspects of the Iraqi ministries, university professors and members of the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform.

He said "the participants ate the general features of the federal budget and the pros and cons, income and investment and operational expenditure of the budget in 2013. At the end of the workshop participants sent a letter to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in which they claim to speed up the adoption of the budget."

The Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided yesterday to postpone the meeting of the Council on confirmation of the current year's budget to next Monday.

And held the Presidency of the Council of Representatives yesterday an urgent meeting with leaders of parliamentary blocs to discuss the vote on the state budget.

A parliamentary source said the agency [where] today that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives held an urgent meeting to discuss the vote on the state budget for 2013 at the insistence of the deputies of the National Alliance on approval and not delay it again."

The reference was called the House of Representatives on Friday to speed up the adoption of the budget, and reject the sectarian slogans and irresponsible statements.

The House voted on Saturday in its regular not to re-bill the state budget for 2013 to the government. Ended

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