Baghdad determines the share of the Kurdistan Region in the 2021 budget, according to the new agreem

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Shafaq News / The representative of the Kurdistan Islamic Group, Salim Hamza, stated on Sunday that the Kurdistan Region’s share of the federal budget for the next year will reach more than 12%, after reaching a technical agreement between Erbil and Baghdad on this topic.

Hamza told Shafaq News that the Kurdish delegation reached an agreement with the federal government in principle to export oil through the national “Sumo” company.

He added that it was agreed on the Kurdistan Region’s share in the general budget for 2021, which will be 12.67% of the total amount in the budget.

Hamza continued by saying that during the coming days what was agreed upon between the region’s delegation and officials in the federal government will be signed.

On Saturday, the Coordinator of the Media Room in the Change Movement, Dalir Abdul Khaleq, announced that the Kurdistan Regional Government’s delegation, which is currently visiting Baghdad, has reached a technical agreement with the federal government regarding salaries and the share of the residents in the 2021 budget.

Abdul Khaleq said in a press conference held yesterday that the delegation headed by the region’s Finance Minister Awat Sheikh Janab reached an agreement with the Federal Ministry of Finance from a technical point of view regarding financing the salaries of employees in the region, and Kurdistan’s share in the next year’s budget.

He explained that “what remains needs administrative procedures by the Council of Ministers in the region in order for this agreement to become a text and be confirmed in the 2021 federal budget, and at the same time the Iraqi parliament votes on it.”

Abdul Khaleq, who is close to the region’s finance minister, added, “This news is a source of pleasure, but we believe that this stage requires a high-ranking political delegation to go to Baghdad to solve all the disputes and outstanding issues.”

On Thursday, a delegation arrived from Erbil, headed by the region’s Finance Minister Awat Sheikh Janab, and the membership of Khaled Shawani, the Minister of Regional Affairs, and Abdul Hakim Khusraw, Director General of Coordination and Follow-up in the Council of Ministers.

On Thursday, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, sent a letter to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, asking him to abide by the agreement concluded between them last August, which includes sending Baghdad an amount of 320 billion dinars per month to the region.

Barzani said that the Kurdistan Region did not receive any amount for the months of May, June, July, and October of 2020, in addition to not disbursing the dues and salaries of the Peshmerga despite its inclusion in the allocations of the Ministry of Defense.

He pointed out that this amount was agreed upon after the federal government deducted all oil and non-oil imports of the region from its actual entitlements from the federal general budget.


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