The Kurdistan Regional Government sends a message to Baghdad regarding the tripartite budget

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[size=52]The Kurdistan Regional Government sends a message to Baghdad regarding the tripartite budget[/size]

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2023-05-24
Today, Wednesday, the Kurdistan Regional Government announced its refusal to make any change to the articles and items that include financial dues for the region and are included in the draft Iraqi general budget law for the next three years.[/size]
[size=45]And a statement by the regional government’s presidency stated that the region’s cabinet held a meeting today, Wednesday, the first paragraph of which included presenting the latest developments in the draft federal budget law for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, and discussing articles and paragraphs related to financial dues for the Kurdistan Region, some of whose articles were amended during the meeting of the Iraqi government on 2 / 5 / 2023, including changes in Article 12 and the removal of terms that posed a threat to sending financial dues to the region.[/size]
[size=45]The statement added that the meeting referred to the efforts of a number of members of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Parliament to amend Articles 13 and 14, and their proposals were against the rights and entitlements of the Kurdistan Region, which were agreed upon by the Iraqi Council of Ministers and the regional government within the framework of the 4/4/2023 agreement, which was included in Draft federal budget law.[/size]
[size=45]The statement indicated that the head of the regional government provided an overview of the negotiations and dialogues between his government and the federal government, which resulted in the agreement between the two governments towards common interests and on the basis of the constitution and securing the region’s dues in the draft budget law, calling for speedy approval of the budget, respect for the region’s constitutional rights and entitlements, and not to take any action A change or modification in the project outside the clauses of the agreement and the common understandings between the two sides.[/size]
[size=45]He added that the prime minister reaffirmed that the Kurdistan Region has implemented all its obligations, so the federal government must implement what it has to and secure the rights and entitlements of the Kurdistan Region, similar to other regions in Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]The statement noted that at the conclusion of this paragraph, the Council of Ministers decided that the negotiating delegation should continue to communicate and coordinate with the federal government and members of the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives in the Kurdish blocs to prevent any efforts towards violating the rights and entitlements of the region that were established by the constitution and reflected in the agreement between the two governments and the draft general budget law.[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the region's financial dues during the five-month period of this year, the statement confirmed that the Council of Ministers adopted the proposal of Cabinet Secretary Amang Rahim to send a letter to the Council of Ministers in Baghdad to implement Article 13 of the Federal Administration Law for the year 2019 by sending 1/12 of the region's actual expenditures for the past year. Which was audited by the Office of Financial Supervision team in a manner similar to the mechanism used by other Iraqi governorates and other regions in Iraq since 1/1/2023, stressing that it is not permissible to differentiate between the Kurdistan Region and other regions in Iraq, and stressing that the region is ready for all obligations that fall on His responsibility in the light of the Federal Financial Management Act.[/size]
[size=45]He noted that the Prime Minister and his deputy stressed the importance of this decision, which reformulates the foundations of public finances in the region towards achieving the centralization of revenues and expenditures and the centralization of salaries in all regions of the region, provided that it is a priority before any other expenditures and commitment to equality and population number of expenditures (except for salaries) and not the adoption of distribution Relative to the level of revenues of the province.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that at the end of the meeting, the Minister of the Region for Parliamentary Affairs, Vala Farid, presented a draft law of the Ministry of Health in the Kurdistan Region, which aims to raise the level of public health institutions and their services, indicating that the Council of Ministers decided to give the opportunity to the Council of the Ministry of Health and the general directors of health in the provinces and independent departments who At the same time, they are members of the Council of Ministers to present the draft in its final form in order to prepare it for the final vote in the next meetings of the Council of Ministers.[/size]
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