Parliamentary power: Kurds did not provide a convincing justification for non-commitment to pay oil money

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US consulate in Erbil announces $ 25 thousand for service providers in the province

 

 Since 2018-02-01 at 13:10 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

The US consulate in Arbil, announced Thursday, allocated $ 25 thousand dollars for service projects for service providers in the Kurdistan region.

"In order to provide service to the community, the consulate provides $ 25,000 to people with good service projects for the region," the consulate said in a statement received by Mawazine News.

The consulate called for "the participation of graduates of service programs in this project by registering the participants' names on the site of the graduates of the service programs (AEIF)."

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ERBIL – The Iraqi Kurds are increasingly disappointed in the West and accuse them of allowing an Iranian hegemony to be established in Iraq after the Kurdish independence referendum held on 25 September. Now senior Kurdish officials say they don’t care about the supposedly anti-Iranian agenda of the United States government just ahead of the Iraqi elections scheduled in May 2018.

Some Kurds even wonder if the US is not really an enabler of Iranian influence, rather than an adversary of Iran.

Peshmerga Major General Sirwan Barzani who commands the Makhmour-Gwer sector 6 told The Region in an interview in December that the Iraqi Kurds do not care about any US agenda to contain Iran. It was, after all, the United States that, just like Iran, opposed a Kurdish independence referendum and allowed Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and the Iraqi army to take Kirkuk with American weapons and tanks in October last year.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo confirmed in October that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani was in Kirkuk against the backdrop of Iraqi moves to restore Baghdad's authority over the city and surrounding disputed areas, but still the United States did nothing to stop it arguing that they warned the Kurds to not hold the referendum.

Moreover, the Iranian government imposed a fuel embargo on the Kurdistan region and closed its borders after a non-binding referendum took place in which over 92 percent voted for independence.

The US President Donald Trump unveiled a new security strategy in December, branding Iran as a major global threat. But Sirwan Barzani says the Kurds are not interested in this. While the Trump administration puts America first, the Iraqi Kurds says for them Kurdistan comes first.
 
“They want to stop Iran and they want a strong [Iraqi PM] Abadi (…). This is really not our business. We want to live in peace in Kurdistan in democracy and live together. We are fighting for more than 100 years with our family just for that,” the nephew of former Kurdish president Masoud Barzani said. “We want a stable Kurdistan and nothing else,” he added.

“We don’t care what will happen between Iran or Trump, or if they will be closer or not, or work with Syria, with Assad or not,” he said. “We want to live in peace and democracy and have our state,” he added. “But unfortunately nobody respects that,” he said.

On Sunday 21 January, a delegation led by Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani visited Iran, in a first visit after the referendum after meeting the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi one day earlier in Baghdad. "We will not allow any threats from Kurdistan territory against Iran,” the KRG PM said according to the Iranian readout.

The visit is a sign of Kurdish disappointment in the West, and that the Iraqi Kurds are looking for better relations with Iran after the referendum.

Also last Thursday, Hemin Hawrami, a senior advisor to former president Masoud Barzani and senior Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) member met with the Iranian consulate to discuss ‘boosting bilateral relations’.

In a sign of improving relations, the Iranian consulate last Wednesday announced that all roads linking the country to the Kurdistan region were opened.

According to Sirwan Barzani five million people voted for the referendum in a transparent and democratic manner, but the West did not support them despite talks about democracy and human rights.

“The problem in this region in the Middle East and these nations and countries is that because of our background and especially because Islam cannot match with democracy, we have difficulties. It’s not easy for us to have real democracy,” he said.

“Never you will see the democracy as you see in Western countries like in America and Europe. Including Kurdistan,” he said. But he said if you compared Kurdistan to the rest of the region, ‘we are the best.’

Therefore, he says the Kurds are disappointed now. “We just saw there is nothing real in democracy and human rights. It’s all lies and about benefits,” he said. “What happened. They used [American] tanks against our people because they want democracy. This is disappointing for the Kurds, and we will never forget that,” he said.
 
“It’s not seen as acceptable? Why? What’s the reason,” he angrily said. “Even if there are animals, there are many rules that you cannot kill animals. But for the Kurds, no, it’s ok. You can kill them by the American tanks and weapons you give them,” he said.

A KRG official told The Region that the recent Iran visit and the statements of Sirwan Barzani are related to the events after Kirkuk.

“Iran has leverage over everyone, including Turkey. We must work with Iraq and Turkey, and that's where Iran has most leverage. America doesn't. It's not an either/or. We must balance ties with Iran and the US,” he said on the condition of anonymity.

“It's a rebalancing of ties. Events after the referendum changed the terms of the political debate in Erbil; it's rooted in Iran's ability to shape political and military developments in the Middle East. In Iraq, Iran can influence decision-makers -- and policies, in ways America can't. Iran will remain a formidable player in the Middle East; too often U.S. engagement is temporary and transactional. They always leave,” he said.

“Erbil recognizes that without a modus vivendi with Iran, dependence on U.S. is a vulnerability,” the official concluded.

Similar sentiments were echoed by Kurdish journalist Arif Qurbany in a column published by the KDP-affiliated news outlet Rudaw last Sunday.

“Can Erbil not be friends with Tehran too? This is important because the survival of Erbil now and in the future depends on at least Iran not regarding it as a danger,” Arif Qurbany said.

“The events of October 16, the invasion of Kirkuk and genocide of Khurmatu require the Kurdistan Region to examine the stance and kind of treatment by friends from the US and EU, especially now that it is clear to Erbil that even if the US and EU do not help with Iranian expansionism, they are indirectly the reason behind the imposition of Iranian hegemony on the entire region,” he said.

“The KRG still feels that they have a luxury to choose,” Bilal Wahab, an analyst at the Washington Institute think-tank, told the Region. “I don’t think Barzani can afford that and needs to play both sides. Abadi met with Barzani as a courtesy to the US. The delivery is another matter,” he said. “This is election-related. That is where Iran comes in. The KDP can’t shrug off the US and still needs a US military base in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” he said.

However, according to US-based Kurdish analyst Mohammed Salih, it’s important that the KRG ‘conducts a radical review of its foreign relations and does away with the previous policy of alienating Iran.’

“In light of the events following last September's independence referendum in Kurdistan and also the broader region, it's clear that Iran is not only the main party that calls the shots in Iraq, but its influence and role in the broader Middle East region has considerably grown. The Kurds need to directly and constructively engage with Iran as this would likely have positive repercussions for Kurds' relations with Baghdad and their position within Iraq, he said.

“The KRG needs to restructure its relations with Tehran, Washington and Baghdad in a balanced way and starts looking after its own interests rather than the short-term games of other powers with Iran,” he added.

“From the standpoint of Kurdish interests, it's important to understand that saving Abadi is not in Kurds' interests even though that might be US's priority. Abadi has been very bellicose and hostile toward the Kurds and as things stand now he does not appear to be the best choice in Baghdad for the Kurds. If possible, Kurds need to retain their king-maker position in Iraqi politics and ensure a prime minister with a friendlier attitude will come to office in Baghdad. Abadi has so far distinguished himself by his highly hostile measures,” he concluded.

But Ceng Sagnic, Co-editor of Turkey Scope and Coordinator of the Kurdish Studies Program at the Moshe Dayan Center told The Region, says there is no US demand for an anti-Iranian agenda yet. They just want Kurdish support for Abadi in the upcoming Iraqi elections, in order to prevent other pro-Iranian actors from winning.

“There is no indicator that the US has ever forced KRG to pursue an anti-Iran agenda in Iraq. The US government's focus has been on countering ISIS and winning a new term for Al-Abadi, and the demand from KRG has been to serve these purposes rather than anti-Iran agenda yet,” he said.

“Nechirvan Barzani has been pursuing a policy of rebuilding KRG's stable relations with the US, Iraq and the neighbouring countries in accordance with the pre-2014 status quo. His initial visits were to strong European nations, and it was clear that he also had the US support. Therefore, in my opinion, Iran acted quickly to invite him to Tehran before the US and Turkey,” he concluded.

It’s clear, however, that the Western response to the Kurdish referendum has partially changed the KRG’s calculations and the Iraqi Kurds are now looking to restructuring their relation Tehran, Washington and Baghdad.

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America announces the results of the talks in Baghdad and Erbil: This is our message to them

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A senior US official said that during his visit to Baghdad and Erbil he had made progress in the talks between the two sides, noting that his country hopes to achieve more rapprochement to end the crisis between the two sides.

US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan told reporters in Washington that he encouraged Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi and Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani on the need to reach a practical formula to pay the salaries of employees and lifting the ban on international flights from airports in the Kurdistan Region.

Sullivan reiterated that the United States is committed to "a prosperous, united and democratic federal Iraq that meets the aspirations of all Iraqis."

He added that he raised this commitment also during his meeting with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Najirvan Barzani and his deputy Qubad Talabani during his visit to Erbil.

He said the two sides had made "progress" in solving controversial issues, stressing the importance of continuing the dialogue.

"The impression I have during the talks is that both sides believe that progress is being made," Sullivan said.

Sullivan said his message to the two sides is to continue discussions and make progress on controversial issues, especially those where differences are small and thus easily resolved.

He stressed the importance of "increasing confidence between the two governments" so that they can move forward and resolve "major contentious issues".

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Kurdish deputy explains: Abadi delay in sending salaries and this fact 250 billion dinars

 

 

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 03/02/2018 - 12:47

 

 

Meeting Kurdish blocs with Abadi

Said the Kurdish deputy attended the meeting of the Kurdish parliamentary blocs with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi, the first Thursday in Baghdad, that the latter procrastinates in the issue of sending salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region and take the issue of auditing the payrolls argument and justification for it.

The Kurdish blocs in the Iraqi parliament held two meetings with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi, day and night Thursday, on the issues about the federal budget for 2018 and the proportion of Kurds and the amounts allocated to the Peshmerga forces in the budget and the benefits of farmers and staff in Kurdistan and a number of other outstanding problems between the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.

The meeting did not reach tangible results, while the deputy of Kurdistan, Ijuba Abadi, the questions of deputies and their observations in rubber.

The deputy of the National Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Ripuar Taha, said in a televised statement, on Saturday, continued (Basneoz) is not known whether the actual amount of 250 billion dinars, which is said that the Iraqi Prime Minister allocated for one month salaries for employees of the Ministries of Education and Health in the Kurdistan Region, And turned him to Baghdad branch of the Central Bank of Iraq, a provision for salaries, explaining that the amount has not been transferred to the account of the Kurdistan Regional Government so far, and can not be disposed of.

Taha said, "When we asked Abadi about the issue of salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region, he said that he is waiting for the completion of the second audit in the payroll, but he said that Abadi delayed in the issue of sending salaries and take the issue of checking the lists argument and justification to delay the dispatch.

An Iraqi government delegation arrived in Erbil on January 30 to check the salaries of five ministries in the Kurdistan Regional Government.

 "A delegation from Baghdad is visiting Erbil to check the salaries of officials of the Ministries of Higher Education, Planning, Municipalities, Trade and Agriculture," said Vian Jav, director general of planning at the Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Health, adding that the delegation's visit to Erbil would last for two days.

This, while a senior official in the Kurdistan Regional Government, said on January 29, that the Iraqi government sent 250 billion dinars as a financial advance to the Kurdistan Region.

The official, who preferred not to be identified for (Basneoz), that «Baghdad sent 250 billion dinars to the Kurdistan Region to pay the salaries of employees of the Ministries of Education and Health.

Al-Kurd has many outlets and observations on the draft budget, as the percentage allocated to them has been reduced from 17 percent as decided by the budgets of the past years to 12.67 during the current year, which is one of the punitive measures taken by the federal government against the Kurdistan Region following a referendum on independence on September 25 As mentioned in the province of the draft law as provinces and not as an entity, in addition to not allocate funds to the Peshmerga forces, which under the Constitution part of the Iraqi defense system.

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Abadi refuses to establish any national homeland for the Kurds

Referring to his agreement with Nechirvan Barzani on a "road map" ...

 

 

 03/02/2018 - 15:44

 

 

 

 

 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced his rejection of the establishment of any "national homeland for the Kurds" and that he agreed with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Nezhirvan Barzani, on a "road map" to solve the problems existing between Baghdad and Erbil.

 

Abadi said in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Saturday that the Kurdish problem is part of history. He said: "We respect the aspirations of the Kurds." He pointed out that the Kurdish problem "is the battle of all successive Iraqi governments."

 

Kurds have been subjected to the marginalization of their national rights by the successive Iraqi governments since the establishment of the Iraqi state last century, as they practiced crimes, violations, abstraction and Arabization, and reached the genocide through the Anfal operations and chemical bombardment by the former Baathist regime.

 

The Iraqi governments did not retreat after 2003 to follow similar policies against the Kurds, did not implement the articles of the Constitution, which was agreed upon, and the concept of partnership was not established, but the imposition of economic and financial sanctions on the Kurds in the region, prompting them to conduct the path of the referendum on self-determination.

 

 "There is a national problem because they have national points, and there is a crisis in oil and the return of salaries to the workers in the region," Abbadi said. "We are working to solve these problems."

 

Baghdad has imposed a number of punitive measures against the Kurdistan region in the wake of the independence referendum, such as the ban on flights from airports in the region and economic and financial sanctions, and the Iraqi government is refusing to send salaries of employees of the region and share of the federal budget.

 

 Despite the frequent meetings between the delegations of the Kurdistan Region and the Iraqi government, and repeated statements about the signs of resolving the outstanding problems between Erbil and Baghdad, on the ground there has been little change.

 

Abadi told the meeting he recently gathered at the Davos forum with the Kurdistan Region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and his deputy Qubad Talabani. "We agreed on a road map ... and we hope that it will be carried out properly," he said without giving details of what was agreed upon.

 

"I do not want to solve the crisis and insist on establishing a national homeland for the Kurds, and this is a dream and ambition, but we reject it completely and with full determination to solve this problem completely," he said.

All international conventions stipulate the right of every people to self-determination, which all the governments of the region have agreed to reject with regard to the Kurds.

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Iraqi PM Talks the Talk, But Doesn't Walk the Walk: MP

 

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ERBIL — Deputy head of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) faction in the Iraqi Parliament stated that they no longer trust the Prime Minster's statements unless they become actions.

"In the recent meetings with the PM, he has promised to continue auditing in all the ministries in Kurdistan," Shakhawan Abdullah, deputy head of KDP Bloc in the Iraqi parliament told BasNews.

Abdullah further stated that the Iraqi premier has already promised to stop the ban on the international airports and solve the 2018 budget issue, but none of his words have become actions, therefore we do not trust him anymore.

The Kurdish blocs on February 3rd once again boycotted the Iraqi parliament session

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Majida al-Tamimi: Add 2 trillion dinars to the budget for the compensation of the Kurds and oil provinces and liberated areas

Date of release: 2018/2/3 22:24 • 440 times scheduled

"The amendments to the financial budget for the current year is the addition of 2 trillion dinars emergency allocations, including the compensation of the Kurds and oil-producing provinces and the network of social protections and liberated areas and displaced persons ... Followed by a member of the Finance Committee Majida Tamimi

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Tamimi: the proportion of the region will not change and Iraq's debt exceeded $ 117 billion

Editorial Date: 2018/2/3 23:12 • 591 times read

(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) The member of the Finance Committee Magda Tamimi, the proportion of the Kurdistan region in the current budget will not change, noting that more than 117 trillion dollars Iraq's internal and external debt.

"The Kurds demanded Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi, the proportion of the region and they replied that it will be on the proportion of population and demanded the release of salaries of employees, which is reserved and waiting for the audit to launch," Tamimi told the program. 
She pointed out that "they objected to the word northern provinces and Abadi told them that each state north as they objected to the rise of the sovereign expenses, the higher the proportion of the region decreased, and raised the subject of dues of the farmers of 700 billion dinars and the answer of Abbadi that some of them smuggled crops to neighboring countries, A survey was conducted by aircraft and the number of hectares was identified and evaluated. " 
She added that "Abadi stressed that the proportion of the region will not change like the provinces of Iraq, which is constitutional."
She pointed out that "the existence of debts on Iraq internal and external until the end of 2017 estimated 117 billion dollars and a deficit estimated at 13 trillion dinars," asserting that "there are still military expenses for the existence of reservoirs and pockets of a little but will be less than before."

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Parliamentary finance reveals the requirements of the province in the budget of 2018

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(Baghdad: al-Furat News) Revealed a member of the parliamentary finance committee on the Kurdistan Change Movement Massoud Haider, that the Kurdish deputies did not demand the proportion of the province in the federal budget for 2018.
 

"There is no obstruction to approving the budget, but there are demands for an alliance of Iraqi forces, Kurds and oil-producing provinces, which have rights, which is an emphasis on the need to discuss the components and find solutions to be included in the law," Haider told AFP. 
He pointed out that "as a Kurdish component we have held two meetings with the Prime Minister regarding our demands, concerning the formation of a technical delegation between the representatives of the Kurds in the Finance Committee and the government headed by the ministers and the Ministry of Finance to assess the needs of the region and the payment of salaries. 
He stressed that "the number of staff in the region 700 thousand employees, which is located in the Ministry of Finance of the province, in addition to the presence of 550 thousand other people who deserve financial grants from retirees and social welfare."
He added that "the existing committees in the region checked the lists and there is no problem in it, and a report was submitted to the Prime Minister," hoping "to pay the salaries of the rest, especially the staff of education, health and education." 
"We did not talk about any proportion in the budget of 2018 related to the region, but we will focus on the need of the region and we hope to get to common points with the federal government."

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The lifting of the ban on the banks of the region will contribute to the return of confidence in transactions 
The parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed on Tuesday that the decision to abolish the punitive banking measures imposed by the parliament on the Kurdistan region, will contribute to the return of confidence in the deal between banks and customers. 
"The decision to lift the ban on banks in the region will lead to the return of customer confidence in the banks of the region," said a member of the Finance Committee, Najeeb Najib, in a press statement. "The ban reduced customers' handling of banks, .
She added that "the banks in the region has no link with the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad, and government banks in Baghdad does not have any branches in the Kurdistan region," noting that "in practice, these banks are complying with all instructions issued by the Central Bank and orders, The legislative felt the need for this law was canceled. " The Central Bank of Iraq has directed, on 8/11/2017, all banks in the country to stop the work of its branches in the Kurdistan region, after the referendum on independence on 25 September 2017, but the House of Representatives voted, on Monday, to cancel the punitive banking measures imposed on Kurdistan region after the referendum on independence from Iraq.

 

Turkish construction companies have exceeded the $ 24 billion 
Turkish construction companies achieved revenues of $ 14.7 billion from 241 projects carried out outside the country during the year 2017. According to a report by the Ministry of Economy of Turkey, yesterday, that the construction companies carried out more than 9 thousand and 258 projects, In the amount of $ 354.65 billion, in 119 different countries since 1972. In terms of regional distribution, the largest number of such projects have been implemented in the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East.
Since 1972, Russia has witnessed the largest number of Turkish projects, accounting for 19.4 percent of total projects carried out by Turkish companies abroad, worth about 68.788 billion dollars, followed by Turkmenistan with a share of 13.2 percent, equivalent to about 46.844 billion dollars. Libya ranked third with 8.1 percent, with projects worth 28.875 billion dollars, while Iraq ranked fourth with 7 percent, or 24.827 billion dollars.

 

Rafidain granted in advance to the employees of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce 
decided to Rafidain Bank, accept the guarantee of employees of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce when they were given an advance of 5 million dinars for a period of 3 years. The bank's information office said in a statement received Tuesday that it had decided to accept the bail of the union employees in a three-way guarantee when they were given an advance of 5 million dinars for a period of three years and with the guarantee of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce. 
The statement pointed out that "the acceptance of the bail of a civil servant from the civil government departments and the permanent staff when granting the employees of the Union an advance of 10 million dinars and for a period of 5 years and the guarantee of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce."

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Kurdistan defends its 17% stake: The government does not have a real percentage in numbers of Kurds

 

 Since 2018-02-04 at 11:42 (Baghdad time)

Special Mawazine News

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said on Sunday that Kurdistan is holding 17% of the federal budget bill for 2018, pointing out that the government does not have a real percentage of the population of the region.

"When it was agreed to give the Kurds a rate of 17 percent in 2005, it was in that agreement that the federal government to conduct a census to know the population of the region," MP Farhad Kader told Mawazine News.

He pointed out that "the government does not have a real percentage of the population of the Kurdistan region, as well as most of the projects stalled in the region since 2014, because of the suspension of the budget and therefore the rate is considered unfair against the citizens in the region."

Kader stressed that "the federal government should take into account the financial and economic crisis experienced by the population of the Kurdistan region over the past two years as a result of the interruption of salaries and the suspension of the budget and the provision of the region in the face of a callous.

He stressed that "the demands of the Kurds regarding the budget is legal and constitutional and not impossible."

During the last week, several meetings were held to resolve the differences on the budget law, but those meetings did not result in a result, according to the deputies of the Kurds.

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kind of got a feeling  I should stay home today !  

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Parliamentary Finance: The study of determining the proportion of the share of the Kurdistan Region of the budget instead of the 12.67%

The Coordination Committee between the members of the Kurds in the Finance Committee of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and the Ministry of Finance, which was formed on the proposal of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Abadi, its work on Sunday, February 4, 2018, to discuss the disbursement of financial dues to the Kurdistan Region and take into account Kurdish demands in the draft law The Iraqi general budget for the year 2018, according to a member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, Massoud Haider.

"He said that" there are nine observations focused on the Kurdish blocs, the most important of which is the share of the Kurdistan region of the budget and the financial dues of the region, "adding that" in the event we reached any agreement within this committee, we will discuss with the Ministry of Finance and the Kurdish blocs and the Kurdistan Regional Government and Parliament "He said.

Abadi had told the Kurdish deputies that the work will be stopped by 12% until reaching an agreement - to determine the percentage needed by the Kurdistan Region - with the Ministry of Finance. "The 12 per cent rate is no longer in place, and that is what the Iraqi prime minister told us during our meeting with him," said Sarhan Slifani, a member of the Finance Committee of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. The reason we go to the Ministry of Finance is to find out the facts and determine the proportion to suit the needs of the region. "

This was the Kurdish blocs in the Iraqi Council of Representatives has decided not to participate in any meeting of the House of Representatives falls under the subject of budget in its agenda, only after meeting the demands of these blocks.

The head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Ares Abdullah, said earlier: "We held last Thursday meetings with Abadi, but we did not reach a result, and talks continue, and our participation in the meetings of the House of Representatives is subject to the amendment of the draft budget as we want, We will certainly participate in the session and we will vote for the project. "

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/02/04/المالية-النيابية-جاري-بحث-تحديد-نسبة-ل/

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A member of the parliamentary economy, explaining the fact that Baghdad sends salaries to employees of the Kurdistan region

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representative of the economy Najibah Najib, on Sunday, the fact of sending Baghdad salaries to employees of the Kurdistan region. 
Najib told "Al-Ghad Press", "The federal government in Baghdad did not send one salary to the Kurdistan region and not salaries, as some have said," denying "the ministries of health and education in the Kurdistan region salaries of its employees."
He added that "the salaries sent by Baghdad to the Kurdistan region only for the employees of the dams as their followers." 
She pointed out that "the money sent by Baghdad recently to the Kurdistan region concerns the banking deal between the Central Bank and one of the branches of the Kurdistan region." 
"We have talked with Prime Minister Haider Abadi recently in the payroll file and asked him to set a date for sending salaries," he said. "What is happening now is payroll audit committees and has not completed its work until now." 
A source familiar with the report said last Tuesday that the Central Bank has increased its branches in the Kurdistan region by 250 billion dinars, to walk the usual financial transactions. 
It is noteworthy that the Kurdish media, promoted the news that the bank sent a payment to the region, but without clarifying the doors of payment, while denied Kurdish official for "Al-Press" the arrival of any payment to Kurdistan by Baghdad to cover the salaries of employees.

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Dr. Barham Saleh discusses with Yan Kubic the political situation and ways to overcome the current stage

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Dr. Barham Saleh, head of the Alliance of Democracy and Justice, received today (4/2/2018) in the city of Sulaymaniyah Jan Kubic, the UN Special Envoy to Iraq and his accompanying delegation. 

During the meeting, the two sides discussed the political situation and ways to overcome the current stage. The two sides agreed on the importance of serious action to address the current problems and crises in a radical manner and unify all efforts for this purpose. 

Dr. Barham Saleh stressed in another axis of the meeting that holding fair and transparent elections and returning to the people's decision is the right way to democratic and peaceful circulation of power. 

With regard to the problems between the Kurdistan region and Baghdad, it was stressed the need to address these problems through peaceful dialogue in the service of the political process and security, especially the living conditions of citizens. 

At the end of the meeting, both sides stressed the need to normalize the situation in Kirkuk and Dzukhurmatu to serve the interests of all components and co-existence.

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Informed sources: Federal government is ready to reopen the airports of the region, but the implementation of this condition !!

05-02-2018 02:48 PM

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Informed sources said that the federal government is ready to reopen the airports of the Kurdistan Region on condition that the federal police forces at airports, replacing the security forces of the regional government, but the Kurdistan Regional Government rejected the request.

 

The sources said in a press statement,  the other condition,  it is related to the fields of Khormal oil, where the federal government asked to hand over these fields, as well as receiving fields west of Kirkuk, to be administered by itself, while officials showed the provincial government ready to hand over oil revenues from the fields of Khormal, To be managed by the provincial government, and that oil is exported from these fields across the oil pipeline of the Kurdistan Region.

 

In a related context, the adviser to the Ministry of Natural Resources in the provincial government Ali Blue that the provincial government has not yet held any agreement with the federal government on the delivery of oil and the demands of Baghdad in this form is unacceptable and the provincial government is not ready in any way to hand over the fields to the federal government, Of the budget

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First Published: 2018-02-04

The United Nations offers its mediation to resolve the differences of Baghdad and Erbil

The UN representative in Iraq focuses on issues related to the payment of salaries of the staff of the region and lift the ban on Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports.

Middle East Online

Absence of response from the parties to the dispute over the UN proposal Erbil The UN representative in Iraq, Jan Kubic, on Sunday, helped the United Nations in the talks between the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan region of Iraq, aimed at resolving the outstanding differences between the two sides. This came during the meeting of Kubic and his deputy, Alice and Paul, with the head of the Kurdistan Regional Administration, Nechirvan Barzani, according to a statement of management. There have been outstanding differences between the two sides for many years, especially the disputed areas, arming and financing the Peshmerga forces (Erbil) and the management of oil wealth. The tension between the two sides increased in an unprecedented manner, after the Kurdistan region conducted a referendum on secession on 25 September last, which confirms the Iraqi government "unconstitutional." Against the background of the referendum, Baghdad imposed punitive measures on Erbil, including the ban on international flights, as well as the deployment of federal forces in the majority of disputed areas that were controlled by the "Peshmerga". According to the provincial administration statement, Kubic offered "assistance and support for further technical meetings between the two sides and problem solving". He explained that he focused on issues related to the payment of salaries of staff of the region, and lifting the ban on airports Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. For weeks, ministerial delegations from both sides have been holding talks to resolve outstanding differences. Barzani said during the meeting that the latest talks "a good start for more serious dialogue and talks." As of 15:25 GMT, there was no comment from Baghdad or Erbil on the UN offer. On 20 December, the Iraqi Federal Court ruled that the referendum held by the Kurdistan Region was unconstitutional and decided to cancel all consequences and consequences. The territorial government welcomed the court's decision, which eased tension between the two sides and paved the way for talks to contain the crisis.

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. . . and how long has this nonsense been going ? I know, it was a rhetorical question - forever + a day.