Editorial Date: 2018/3/2 20:27 • 24 times read
(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) The President of the Republic, Fuad Masum, on Friday, with the heads of the Kurdish blocs in parliament, to discuss the draft federal budget law for 2018.
“The meeting was held in the house of the President of the Republic, in the presence of the heads of the Kurdish blocs, and the second deputy speaker of the parliament, Aram Sheikh Mohammed,” said the decision of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Ahmed Haji Rashid.
The decision of the Finance Committee said earlier that “the meeting aims to determine the final position of the Kurdish issue of the federal budget.”
Rashid added: “There are three points will be the focus in our meeting today, and is the share of the Kurdistan region in the federal budget, and discuss the non-constitutional items that came within the draft budget, as well as salaries of the Peshmerga forces.”
The Iraqi parliament had voted yesterday on 12 articles in the budget boycott of the Kurdish deputies to protest against the reduction of the share of Kurdistan in the budget from 17 to 12.6%.
The decision of the Finance Committee said earlier that “the meeting aims to determine the final position of the Kurdish issue of the federal budget.”
Rashid added: “There are three points will be the focus in our meeting today, and is the share of the Kurdistan region in the federal budget, and discuss the non-constitutional items that came within the draft budget, as well as salaries of the Peshmerga forces.”
The Iraqi parliament had voted yesterday on 12 articles in the budget boycott of the Kurdish deputies to protest against the reduction of the share of Kurdistan in the budget from 17 to 12.6%.
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