Iraqi News Highlights and Points To Ponder Thursday Evening 6-6-24
Iraqi News Highlights and Points To Ponder Thursday Evening 6-6-24
Kurdish MP: The Region’s Share In The Budget Is Fair And We Are Happy To See It Passed
Policy Al-Sumaria News – Politics The representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party bloc, Sharif Suleiman, described today, Thursday, the Kurdistan region’s share in the federal budget as “fair,” indicating that prior political agreements decided its passage.
Suleiman said in an interview with: Alsumaria News “The political agreement that occurred between the governments of the center and the region is the basis for agreeing on the region’s share of the budget amounting to 12.67%,” adding, “We are happy that there were no bidding or arguments regarding voting on the budget tables and the region’s share in them.”
He added, "The region's share in the budget tables is fair and not bad in light of the reality it is experiencing."Iraq", indicating, "We hope that the budget will be implemented in the correct manner agreed upon and that it will not be subject to political quarrels and bidding or be used as a pressure card." LINK
An Economist Reveals The Positive Side Of The Budget
Economy Information / Baghdad.. Today, Thursday, economic expert Dargham Muhammad Ali revealed the positives of the current year’s budget, which was approved by the House of Representatives a few days ago.
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Ali told Al-Maalouma: “The criticisms raised about the budget are normal, but most of them are based on bias towards the governorates, or perhaps for electoral goals sometimes.”
He added, "The real face of the budget has many positives, including that it is different from previous budgets, as it represented the highest investment ceiling among previous budgets."
He pointed out, "Allocating financial benefits for the development road project, supporting the private industrial sector, and supporting many infrastructure projects that will contribute in one way or another to activating various economic activities that will benefit in the near future."
He continued: “The government’s adoption, for the first time, of the principle of diversifying the distribution of projects between the local administrations of the governorates and between the ministries, will reflect positively on the implementation of projects by creating an atmosphere of competition between the ministries and governorates, especially since the government granted the implementation of the ministries’ projects directly.”
He continued, "The budget was based on distributing the governorates' funds according to deprivation and not on the basis of the proportion of the population, and this will establish the basis for revitalizing the economy of the governorates that suffer from a lack of services and others." Ended / LINK
Abdel Wahid: The Region’s Budget Allocations Do Not Fit Its Reality, And The Smuggled Funds Are No Longer Mere “Frauds.”
Time: 06/05/2024 Read: 2,548 times {Politics: Al-Furat News} The head of the New Generation Parliamentary Bloc, Sarwa Abdel Wahed, said that the region’s budget allocations do not fit its reality, while she believes that the smuggled funds that have returned are mere “fraud”.
Abdel Wahed said, during her hosting of the program {Free Speech} broadcast by Al-Furat satellite channel this evening, that: “
We voted as a new generation on the 2024 budget tables and we had observations regarding the region’s share on the basis of 3 governorates and not 4 {Sulaymaniyah, Dohuk, Erbil and Halabja}.”
- There is an article in the law that obligates the House of Representatives to vote on the budget without discussing it.
- The Kurdistan region’s budget allocations are not proportionate to the size of the region’s reality, but they are good for covering the salaries of the region’s employees.
- We are in favor of improving the governorates’ budgets, especially in Basra Governorate.
- Not all objections are based on schedules The budget is in good shape, but there are those who want to exploit this situation.
- Some politicians defend the contracts of the region’s governorates for personal gain.
- The issue of appeals against the budget is natural, and the judiciary is the one who determines whether it is valid or not.
- We communicate our objection to all Shiite and Sunni leaders, and we are not responsible for the mistakes of others -
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee did not attend the voting session on the budget schedules due to the lack of allocations for some governorates.
- The central and regional governments bear the responsibility of delaying the payment of employees’ salaries as well as the resettlement.
- The current session of the House of Representatives is devoid of commitment to attending the sessions and their effectiveness and activity in legislating laws as a result of many problems and lack The harmony of the parties and the absence of Muhammad Al-Halbousi did not change the reality of Parliament.
The problem of resolving the position of Speaker of Parliament can be solved through settlement, as happened with the President of the Republic, in one session.
- What is returned to the state’s treasury of smuggled funds is merely “bankruptcy” relative to what was stolen, and no Iraqi institution has the right to withhold information from representatives, and the current session is witnessing a significant reduction in the follow-up of corruption files.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani is an honest person and he should be given a deadline to complete his work.
We transferred two documents containing suspicions of corruption related to Samarra medicines and the Ministry of Education to the Federal Integrity Commission and are awaiting investigations. Wafaa Al-Fatlawi LINK
Economic Warning From The Basra-Aqaba Pipeline.. How Much Is Its Value?
Economy News – Baghdad Today, Thursday, the economic expert, Hamza Al-Jawahiri, warned against the Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline project, and in what he described as a “Trojan horse” for normalization with Israel, he pointed to the value of its total cost.
Al-Jawahiri said, in an interview with Al-Iqtisad News, that “the Iraqi government is under intense pressure from America to implement the Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline project,” noting that “MPs must have a role in stopping the project because it represents the cornerstone of the so-called deal of the century.” In which the project will be a Trojan horse for normalization with Israel, which the people completely reject.”
He added, "The Basra-Aqaba oil pipeline and its annexes are projects that cost Iraq $28 billion and include the cost of building the line and Mustafa Oil to be established in Aqaba, along with a line that goes to Egypt to supply it with oil, in addition to building a port in Aqaba for export. All costs are borne by Iraq."
He pointed out, "Iraq bears all kinds of cruelty, especially since the line passes through Wadi Houran, which is considered a safe haven for ten thousand ISIS fighters," noting that "Iraq transports through it to Jordan 150,000 barrels of oil and 150,000 barrels to the refinery in Aqaba and a quantity of oil."
More than 300 thousand barrels per day to Egypt and Israel, while the line does not transport more than one million barrels to Jordan, meaning that Iraq will only export 400 thousand barrels per day to the world.
Al-Jawahiri stressed, “All the costs of building the line are paid by Iraq, as are the costs of operating the line, and it bears the cost of the oil’s passage through Jordan at the rate of two dollars and seventy cents per barrel.”
The economic expert stated, “When the oil is transported from the port of Aqaba, it will be in waters completely controlled by Israel, and if the latter creates any problem to impose normalization on Iraq, it will be forced to submit to its will, and thus the line will be a Trojan horse for normalization with the latter.” 06/06/2024 - https://economy-news.net/content.php?id=44066
Provoking Thoughts and Points To Ponder On Adversity:
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. - Bible
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them. - Seneca
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. - William Faulkner
A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks. - Panchatantra
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy and by religion. - Charles Caleb Colton
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