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More Iraqi News Tuesday PM 9-1-20
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Parliament Will Meet Next Week .. Al-Kazemi's Government Is Obligated To Do So
Political Tuesday 1 September 2020 | 03:21 pm| Views: 153 A member of the Parliamentary Economic Committee, Nada Shaker Jawdat, confirmed today, Tuesday, that the House of Representatives will hold its session next week to pass important laws, while she indicated that the government is obligated to submit the draft budget .
"Parliament is determined to hold parliamentary sessions during the next week to pass important laws, particularly the amendment of the election law and approve the amendment of the Federal Court, " Jawdat said .
She added that "the government is obligated to present the budget according to the laws in effect in October of this year, to study it and make sufficient amendments to it to be ready in December for voting and passing it ."
Jawdat indicated that "the government cannot be left alone in the economic planning file, and it must seek the help of experts and not be satisfied with government advisors, as well as taking into account the views of the Parliamentary Finance Committee and other concerned committees." https://aynaliraqnews.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=138051
Al-Kazemi: There Are Parties Who Live On Chaos ... This Is What We Are Currently Working On
Political Tuesday 1 September 2020 | 03:44 pm| Views: 107 The Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, affirmed today, Tuesday, that there are parties who live on chaos and are working hard to restore the prestige of the state .
According to a statement by his media office, Al-Kazemi said, "There are parties who subsist on chaos, and we are working hard to restore the prestige of the state and raise the morale of our heroic forces that have been broken during the last period," stressing, "We have operations to restore the prestige of the state and enforce the law ."
Al-Kazemi added, "The ministers must listen to the demands of the demonstrators and take quick action, and open up to public opinion about the challenges facing the country ."
He pointed out that "we must not allow bureaucratic procedures to obstruct the government's plans, as there are decisions to implement projects taken in the Council of Ministers that serve citizens, and the ministers should follow them constantly and submit a report on the progress of their implementation."
https://aynaliraqnews.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=138053
Kurdistan Rejects Baghdad’s Approach To Transfer The Salaries Of The Region’s Employees To The Cards
Political Tuesday 1 September 2020 | 05:06 PM| Views: 7 The Parliamentary Services Committee announced, on Tuesday, that the Kurdistan region refused to direct the central government to transfer the salaries of the region’s employees to a Master Card to prevent money loss and waste .
A member of the Services Committee, Hassan Fadam, said that "the problem of salaries for the region’s employees has not been solved because of the region’s refusal to be truly frank about the number of its employees and the loss of money and its failure to go to the employee when it is transferred to Kurdistan
He added that "the central government asked the regional government to transfer the salaries of its employees to the Master Card, and the government undertakes to pay their salaries every month and finance their cards without delay ."
He explained that "Kurdistan has rejected the order as it leads to uncovering the real numbers of its employees and preventing corruption and waste of money through the door of employees ' salaries ." Suspect https://aynaliraqnews.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=138063
Economic: Corruption In The Billions In The Number Of Kurdistan Employees And The Doors Of Spending Their Budgets
19:57 - 08/31/2020 Information / Special ...The economic expert, Ragheb Reda, confirmed, on Monday, that the Kurdistan region has tampered with the real numbers of the number of its employees and gave Baghdad figures different from the real numbers, indicating that the region’s budget is opaque and devoid of exchange doors.
"The Kurdistan region is continuously procrastinating financial issues with the central government because of financial corruption in all of their files," Rida said to "the information".
He added that "the corruption of the Kurdistan region is estimated at billions in the files related to the salaries of employees, the region’s outlets and the sections of exchange for budgets," noting that "Kurdistan gives figures different from the truth for the numbers of its employees to the central government and seizes the rest of the salaries."
Reda explained that "the region's budget is free of any exchange and vague doors to mislead about corruption in the exchange," pointing out that "Kurdistan prevents any government or central monitoring delegation from reaching the border outlets in order not to reveal corruption and to see the work in progress there." https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/08/31/492673/
US Ambassador: Washington Supports Any Economic Reform Efforts Undertaken By Baghdad
POSTED ON 2020-09-01 BY SOTALIRAQ On Monday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Matthew Tueller, commented on the continued missile strikes against the military and diplomatic presence in Baghdad.
The US ambassador said, during a press conference, that “the meeting of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi and US President Donald Trump shows the strength of the relationship between the two countries,” while expressing his hope that “the visit will create momentum in the relationship between the two countries.” He added that "discussing economic issues played an important role in the Al-Kazemi meetings in Washington," adding, "We all understand the challenges that Iraq suffers from due to Corona and low oil prices, especially since it does not have a strong position to attract foreign investment."
He added, "Washington is supportive of any economic reform efforts by the Iraqi government," noting that "there will be meetings in the field of investment for the purpose of supporting reform processes and investment issues."
He continued, “We hope that the Iraqi parliament will not reject the recent agreements between Iraq and America,” noting that “the strategic framework agreement was ratified by Parliament in 2008, and anything we do within this framework is enforceable as a law, and that all we have done Recently, it is done with the agreement of the strategic framework within the common interest. ”
The American ambassador emphasized that "there is a lot of misunderstanding about the relationship of the international coalition and the Iraqi government," stressing that "America does not want to maintain a permanent military presence in Iraq and that in the past five years we have achieved a lot of war with the Iraqis against ISIS."
He pointed out that "at the end of this war, there will be a discussion with the technical teams to determine the conditions in the final stage of fighting ISIS, as we always hear from many Iraqi partners that the partnership with America must continue."
He pointed out that “there are extremist voices that reach the point of launching missiles to target the military presence and the diplomatic presence, and this does not represent the Iraqi people or the interest of Iraq,” warning that “if this speech defeats the interest of Iraq, this prompts a review of many issues not between Iraq. And America, but between Iraq and the international coalition in general. LINK
Statement Of The Parliamentary Economic And Investment Committee Regarding Stopping Cooperation With The National Investment Authority
01/09/2020 Honorable Prime Minister, ministers, supervisory departments and relevant institutions
We call on you to stop cooperation with the National Investment Commission in all forms, and hold you responsible and legal consequences for wasting public money, and we call on the Prime Minister to refer the Authority’s Chairman, Window Manager and Legal Department Director to the investigation and withdraw their hand until the investigation ends.
We would like to emphasize that the Economic and Investment Committee had previously met with the Prime Minister, and the violations were confirmed by the Commission in official letters at the meeting.
It was supposed to form a committee for the purpose of stopping corruption and waste operations in the non-application of the provisions of the Investment Law, in a number of axes, including ownership at an allowance 2 % Of the value of the land according to the system enforced by the government and it is different to the provisions of the effective investment law, which speaks in exchange for the real value of land within the boundaries of the municipalities and the capital, and this transgression of the law is contrary to the constitution and legal law,
and also the system grants 98% of the land’s value to their partners in corruption and is forbidden Citizen and the state treasury from these funds that reach in the worst case 10 trillion in the lands granted during this period and the circumstances of the Corona pandemic and more than that the state is restricting the provision of services on its account in billions more in addition to the issue of expanding the electricity stations in which the smell of corruption has reached neighboring countries and the involvement of the country By tens Billions.
We stress that this institution has no economic benefit, but on the contrary it has become one of the biggest gates of corruption because of its officials and threatens the survival of the state's assets due to their persistence in insisting on corruption, which has conveyed a message that they are not afraid of accountability and that they are above the law and we are presenting before your eyes some of the administrative abuses.
On the law and distortion in using the provisions of the law in the article on expropriation and the state’s obligation to purchase electricity supply service from investors at times the value that was not stipulated in the investment law instead of allocating these funds to build government stations and unleash honorable competition between the public and private sectors in the service of the citizen
We will present some of the violations of the law in the administrative procedures followed: -
Article 20 First, the Commission issues an investment license through the establishment of a single window that includes authorized representatives from the ministries and relevant authorities ..
Article 20 Second / B / For one window to submit the recommendation to grant the license to the Chairman of the Commission Or the Board of Directors, as the case may be, Investment Regulation No. 2 of 2009 Article 4 First The competence of the National Commission is defined for strategic projects with the Federal floor exclusively.
Article 5 of the system specifies the tasks of the Board of Directors of the National Commission, including first setting a strategic policy
Second: Determine the necessary procedures to monitor, follow up and evaluate the performance of investment projects through committees formed for this purpose, so how does the board of directors monitor projects and grant licenses that are not even presented to it, and the window is supposed to make recommendations according to the opinion of the delegates, so how can the recommendation be without the approval of the delegates representatives of the sectoral authorities.
Article 13 of the system 2 The provisions of Article C of Article 7 of the law shall be observed in granting investment licenses for projects that require obtaining approval from the Council of Ministers, and this indicates that projects whose value exceeds 250 million will obtain the approval of the Council of Ministers for the region or governorate commission. The investment license is granted in the National Authority without the approval of the delegates and without the approval of the Board of Directors.
Article 4 / g / of the law stipulates that the board of directors of the National Investment Commission shall meet at the invitation of its president, and the quorum for the meeting and decision-making shall be determined by an absolute majority. The workflow shall be organized by an internal system issued by the Commission and any decisions taken in the National Administration Board if the projects are not presented to it ??
For the purpose of stopping the waste of billions of dollars, state assets and administrative abuses, we demand that Mr. Al-Kazemi implement the law, withdraw the hand, and refer them to investigation and prevent them from traveling and investigating their properties.
Economic and Investment Committee House of Representatives Media Department 1/9/2020 LINK
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