Saturday, December 26th 2009 11:54 AM
Erbil, Dec. 26 (AKnews) - Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament announced that the latter had conducted the second reading of the 2010 Iraqi budget in the presence of the country’s finance minister.
"Iraqi parliament, in the presence of Bayan Jabr al-Zubaidi, has resumed Thursday the second reading of the budget of 2010," MP Ismael Shukir the Independent National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews) on Saturday.
We decline external adds for the draft budget as recently the oil minister proposed to cut budget of some province in case the country’s general budget plunged, he added.
The deputy chairman of the Finance Committee said that if there was a determination to keep the 4th clause in the article 17 of the budget, we will then use the veto by the President of the Republic, he added, " the Kurdistan Regional Government should seek compensation from the Iraqi oil minister, because he prevented oil export from the Kurdistan region."
"After the end of the second reading, the Finance Committee have days ahead to review and modify the draft law, prepare it and submit it to the president of the parliament for third reading and vote", he added.
Regarding political parties seeking to postpone the ratification of the 2010 budget till after the elections of March 7, Shukir said ”this intent does not respect the Iraqi Constitution, because it requires the ratification of the Constitution in the same session during which it was discussed."
The Iraqi Parliament postponed the session till after January 3, 2010.
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