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Trend Press / Baghdad

 

The governor of the Central Bank Ali al-Alaq, the agreement of Baghdad and Erbil to subject the banks in the Kurdistan region to control the Central Bank of Iraq . "

 

"It was agreed with the head of the provincial government to exercise the branch of the Central Bank in Erbil, his work and supervisory and supervisory authority over the banks of the region and non-bank financial institutions ."

 

He added that "the central bank has the direct support of the Prime Minister of the region and the Minister of Finance to facilitate the work of the Central Bank branch and the performance of its oversight work for the development of the banking sector in the region and provide ways of coordination between them," adding that "was also discussed on the licensing of government banks belonging to the region and Their status and their legal adaptation to make them subject to the Bank and its control and in such a way as to enable them to develop their role . "

 

He explained that "there was an agreement between the government and the region to avoid double taxation between the two sides, and the banking sector will be the first link to solve this problem so that branches of banks in Baghdad or the region are not subject to tax accounting twice and recognition of what was issued by the central government or territory under the agreement or under Way that tax is accounted for ".

 

 

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The General Authority for Taxation for "Economy News": the purpose of standardizing the tax to eliminate discrimination and tax differences

 

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Economy News Baghdad The Director General of the Tax Authority, Abbas successful, Wednesday, the unification of learning and controls between the governments of the Center and the region, noting that the purpose of the agreement to eliminate discrimination and tax differences in force previously. Abbas said in an interview with "Economy News" that the issue is not about the unification of taxes, but the unification of learning and controls between the governments of the Center and the region, noting that the amendments to the tax law are different from the amendments to the law on taxes in the region. On the banking sector, Abbas pointed out that the tax imposed on him is 15% according to his geographical location, indicating that the banks of the region are taxable according to the regional tax law. And revealed that the unification of tax-related learning and controls aimed at eliminating discrimination and differences previously established between the Center and the region. "All the instructions, controls and taxes that are issued in the federal budget must be applied in the region," she concluded. For his part, the director of external relations of the Association of Iraqi private banks Sherwan Mustafa, in an interview with "Economy News", that the decision represents the seed of success planted by the Central Bank of Iraq with the help of the Association of Banks, where last year they sent delegations from Baghdad and met with the Director General of taxes in Erbil and discussed In this regard. He added that the success of the resolution will remove the suffering of the banking sector related to not giving a patent to the customers with banks. He pointed out that the decision to consolidate taxes would eliminate double taxation is to take a tax in the center and offset by another tax in the region. http://economy-news.net/content.php?id=11563

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Barzani and Araji discuss the new steps after the lifting of the air embargo on Kurdistan

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Trend Press / Arbil

 

Met with the Minister of Interior in the Federal Government Qasim Araji and his delegation . "

 

A statement issued by the government of the region got "Trend Press" a copy of it, that was during the meeting discussed the latest developments in the dialogue between Arbil and Baghdad and the decision to reopen airports in the Kurdistan region, and both sides expressed the hope that this step to rebuild confidence, Other steps such as paying employees' salaries and solving problems . "

 

The two sides also stressed the existence of a genuine will to resolve and the importance of dialogue and understanding in order to solve all the problems between Erbil and Baghdad on the basis of the Iraqi constitution .

 

In the meeting, which was attended by the Minister of Interior of Kurdistan, Karim Sinjari, discussed the security situation in Baghdad and Arbil, and in the danger and terrorist threats. The two sides stressed the strengthening of cooperation and coordination of security and information exchange and joint work between the Ministries of Interior in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, Terrorism and terrorist threats " .

 

Qassim al-Araji arrived earlier in the morning accompanied by a high-level delegation to the city of Erbil, held in several meetings with Sinjari and senior officials in the interior of the region discussed the coordination of the work of ports, passports and visas, and the implementation of the decision to lift the ban on airports in the region "He said .

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2018-03-14 BY SOTALIRAQ

Agreement to subject the banks of Kurdistan to the Central Bank of Iraq a new page between Baghdad and the Kurds to reopen airports Erbil and Sulaymaniyah internationally

Baghdad - Arbil - time

 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi Tuesday decided to reopen Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in Iraqi Kurdistan International flights, six months after the embargo, after the approval of the territorial government to subject them to the authority of the federal government. The Iraqi government imposed a ban on international flights to and from Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports at the end of September Days of referendum on the future of Kurdistan considered by Baghdad illegal.

 

Abadi said in an official statement that he signed the order «after the response of local authorities in the Kurdistan region, to return Federal Authority »on the two airports. The statement added that "will be the creation of a special protection Directorate on the airports of the Kurdistan region will be command and control To the Federal Ministry of the Interior ».

 

In turn, Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, told AFP, "The lifting of the ban will enter Will take effect in the next few days. " He pointed out that «this depends on the arrival of federal government employees - and organize matters in all areas - Who will be directly linked to the federal government and under its supervision and supervision ». In the first reaction of officials of Kurdistan, the head of the regional government, Nechirvan Barzani, during a press conference « We thank and respect Baghdad and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, because he is the one who decided to reopen airports. "  For his part, praised the United Nations representative in Iraq, Jan Kubic in an official statement of this resolution, which He described as "the important positive step that strengthens the partnership between the federal government and the Kurdistan region" and indicates that «Problems and outstanding issues can be resolved through dialogue». While the governor of the Central Bank Ali Alalak, on Tuesday, the agreement of Baghdad and Arbil to subjugate existing banks In the Kurdistan region for the control of the Central Bank of Iraq. "The agreement was reached," al-Aalak told a news conference with Erbil's provincial finance minister With the head of the provincial government to exercise the branch of the Central Bank in Erbil and its supervisory and supervisory authority over the banks of the region And non-bank financial institutions ». He continued that «the central bank has the direct support of the Prime Minister of the region and the Minister of Finance to facilitate the work of a branch Central Bank and the performance of its oversight work for the development of the banking sector in the region and provide ways of coordination between them » , Adding that «was also discussed on the licensing of government banks of the region and the re-development and adaptation To make it subject to the Bank and its control and in a manner that enables it to develop Seen the performance of the required role. » The governor of the Central Bank, "It was agreed between the government and the region to avoid tax evasion between The two sides

 

Baghdad confirmed the restoration of its control over passports and permits to stay in Kurdistan, in addition to customs duties and revenues the customs. Now, the provincial government has responded after opposition, which was a stumbling block to an agreement, the report said The month of February, when the three-month extension was announced.

 

A senior source in the Kurdistan region, who declined to be named, told AFP that «the prime minister met Tuesday A Kurdish delegation and the two sides agree that the two airports will be run in the same way as the rest of the airports in Iraq ».

 

The administration of the territory's airports before the referendum of 25 September was limited to the autonomous region, But in the afternoon, all flights from Kurdistan must pass through Baghdad. Foreigners were required to obtain visas.

 

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Officially .. Re-opening airports of the region

15/3/2018 12:00 am   Baghdad / Erbil / Sabah  The lifting of the international air embargo on the airports of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah after the response of local authorities in the Kurdistan region to the terms of the federal government to oversee the airports a breakthrough in the relations of Baghdad and Erbil, which was strained following the referendum of "secession," Interior Minister Qassim al- On Wednesday, the reopening of the airports of Kurdistan officially before international flights, stressing the commitment of everyone to the Constitution and solve all the problems between Baghdad and Erbil, while counting the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, the decision to lift the ban on airports «a good step», Kurdish Prime Minister Haider Abadi to other initiatives to dampen the atmosphere, stressed Vice President Iyad Allawi, the need to be followed by other steps to reach final solutions and close the file of the dispute once and for all.  "The reopening of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in front of international flights," he said in a joint press conference with Kurdistan Interior Minister Karim Sinjari. "Everyone is committed to the constitution and solving all problems between Baghdad and Erbil."  While Sinjari said: "The opening of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports is a good step towards solving the problems between Baghdad and Erbil in accordance with the constitution." He stressed the need to "solve the problems between the two sides through dialogue and understanding."

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Iraq lifts ban on Kurdistan Region landlines

By Rudaw 9 hours ago

The Erbil Police call center depends on the landlines, receiving up to 5,000 calls per day. Photo: Rudaw TV

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq has lifted its ban on Kurdistan Region’s landlines, a government official told Rudaw on Wednesday. 

“Today I received a letter from Baghdad regarding reconnection of communication networks to landlines in Kurdistan Region,” said Omed Mohammed Salih, spokesperson for the KRG’s Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Federal authorities have decided to reconnect the Asia, Zain, and Korek networks to the Region’s landlines, Salih explained, adding that he received the notice via messaging service Viber.

Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) cut the landline connection last month. 

First responders and emergency services were alarmed by the decision to cut the communication service, saying it would put lives and security at risk. 

Salih explained that he led a ministerial delegation to Baghdad were they met with the CMC and “reached a result. They requested some documents and we submitted them.”

Iraqi government imposed a number of measures against the Kurdistan Region in an effort to exert federal control over the autonomous region in the wake Kurdistan’s vote for independence last fall. 

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Baghdad to send salary funds to Erbil ‘in near future’

By Rudaw 5 hours ago

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq will be sending more funds to the Kurdistan Region “in the near future” to pay KRG public sector salaries, a representative of the Central Bank stated. 

“We will send another amount of money in the near future… to pay [KRG] civil servants’ salaries according to the mechanism both the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region have agreed on,” Ihsan Yasiri, a member of the administration council of Iraq’s Central Bank, told Rudaw.

He declined to specify the amount, but Kurdish MP Najiba Najib told Rudaw it is 400 billion Iraqi dinars ($337.5 million).

Central Bank officials have said that Abadi will make a decision on paying the salaries next week, according to Najib, who is a member of the economy and investment committee in the Iraqi parliament.

Baghdad sent 250 billion Iraqi dinars (about $210 million) to the Central Bank’s Erbil branch in January. 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said his government would pay the salaries of KRG public employees, but only after the payroll lists are audited, citing concerns about bloated numbers and corruption.

Auditing teams began with the health and education ministries and have reportedly completed their work. 

Last week, Abadi said he would pay the salaries of both ministries before the Newroz holiday on March 21.

An Iraqi delegation has been in Erbil this week discussing the Kurdistan Region's banking sector.

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The Central Bank of Iraq sends 400 billion dinars to Erbil to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region

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The Central Bank of Iraq sends 400 billion dinars to Erbil to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region

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An official in the Central Bank of Iraq, on Wednesday, send the Central Bank of Iraq additional funds to its branch in Arbil, and noted a Kurdish parliament in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, to "send 400 billion dinars by the Central Bank of Iraq to its branch in Erbil." 

A member of the Governing Council of the Central Bank of Iraq, Ihsan al-Yasiri, said in a statement to the network Roudao Media, "There is a quantity of funds in the branch of the Central Bank of Iraq in Erbil to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region, and will be sent additional funds very soon to the branch of the bank in Erbil, On the staff according to the mechanism that was agreed upon between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region. "

For its part, said a member of the Economic Committee MP Najeeb Najib, in a statement to the network Roudao media, that "through our follow-up to the question of salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region, told us a number of officials in the Central Bank of Iraq, that will be sent 400 billion dinars in the near future to the bank branch In Erbil, to pay the salaries of employees. " 

Najib pointed out that officials of the Central Bank of Iraq have indicated that the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will announce the decision to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region next week, and will be requested to send lists of employees in the ministries of education and health in the Kurdistan Regional Government, to start paying their salaries.

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Completion of auditing the payroll records of other Ministry employees in the Kurdistan Region

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The Ministry of Transport and Communications in the Kurdistan Regional Government announced the end of audits in the payroll of its employees. 

A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport and Communications Omid Mohammed said in a statement to "Khandan", that the completion of audits of the records of employees of most departments and directorates of the Ministry of Transport. 

As for the date of sending the salaries of employees of the ministry, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport and Communications, said no date has been set for this, and what has happened so far is the end of the audit. 

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A source at the Ministry of Finance is likely to begin paying the employees' salaries on Sunday

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A source in the Ministry of Finance, the Kurdistan Regional Government, directly to pay the salaries of employees on Sunday, among that, in the event of sending Baghdad to the amount of money to the region will be the salaries of a number of ministries. 

The source said in a statement to "Khandan" that the Ministry of Finance intends to start distributing the salaries of the month of November (11) last year to employees, starting on Sunday, pointing out that the Ministry of Education will be the first ministries to receive salaries. 

The source said that if Baghdad sends money to the Kurdistan region will be distributed salaries of employees of several ministries, and if not send the money, the Ministry of Finance will start Sunday pay salaries and will start the Ministry of Education. 

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Close to al-Maliki reveals a "deal" behind the delivery of Kurdistan "alarm" to Baghdad

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A deputy close to the head of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, on Thursday, a political deal struck between Baghdad and Erbil in order to hand over the last group of "Alawash" federal government, in return for the reopening of airports and border crossings in the region.

"The border crossings and the airports in Kurdistan should be subject to the authority of the central government in Baghdad," MP Mohammed al-Chihoud said in a statement to Al-Maaloumah. "Airports and ports have returned to Kurdistan, as if nothing had happened."

He added that "Baghdad has reopened airports and ports and delivered them to Kurdistan in a political deal between the two sides and under US pressure on Baghdad," stressing that "Kurdistan still has a lot of motivation in its prisons, but the government accepted this little number in return for the re-delivery of airports and ports to the authorities in Kurdistan "He said.

The head of the "Sadikun" Hassan Salem said earlier that the Kurdish government is trying to silence the government by 850 "Daqi", adding that the province still retains more than 2000 elements and leaders in calling the terrorist, and may use them as a pressure card against Baghdad. Ending / 25 n

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Abadi: Complete the legal and constitutional procedures for federal control of airports in the region

 Since 2018-03-15 at 14:28 (Baghdad time)

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Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Haider al-Abadi announced on Thursday the completion of legal and constitutional procedures for federal control of airports in the region.

"Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has opened the Sulaymaniyah and Erbil airports to the international aviation after completing the legal and constitutional procedures with the federal control over the two airports," a statement by the Prime Minister's Information Office said.

On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree ordering the opening of airports in the region

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The Central Bank of Iraq sends 400 billion dinars to Erbil to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region

An official in the Central Bank of Iraq, on Wednesday, send the Central Bank of Iraq additional funds to its branch in Arbil, and noted a Kurdish parliament in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, to "send 400 billion dinars by the Central Bank of Iraq to its branch in Erbil."

A member of the Governing Council of the Central Bank of Iraq, Ihsan al-Yasiri, said in a statement "there is a quantity of funds in the branch of the Central Bank of Iraq in Erbil to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region, and will be sent additional funds very soon to the bank branch in Erbil, to be distributed to employees according to the mechanism Which was agreed upon between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region. "

For its part, said a member of the Economic Committee MP Najeeb Najib, in a statement that "through our follow-up to the question of the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region, told us a number of officials in the Central Bank of Iraq, that will be sent 400 billion dinars in the near future to the branch of the bank located in Arbil, To pay the salaries of employees. "

Najib pointed out that officials of the Central Bank of Iraq have indicated that the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will announce the decision to pay the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region next week, and will be requested to send lists of employees in the ministries of education and health in the Kurdistan Regional Government, to start paying their salaries.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/03/14/البنك-المركزي-العراقي-يرسل-400-مليار-دين/

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			March 15 , 2018 Prime Minister Dr. Haider Al-Abbadi opened the Sulaymaniyah and Erbil airports for international aviation after the legal and constitutional procedures were completed by the federal control over the two airports.       Prime Minister's Media Office March  15 , 2018   http://pmo.iq/press2018/15-3-201801.htm

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How much was the financial losses of the private sector in Kurdistan due to the international ban on airports?

 

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The Union of Importers and Exporters in the Kurdistan Region on Thursday estimated financial losses incurred by the private sector in the region for the duration of the ban on international flights from Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports by more than 100 million US dollars.

Spokesman for the Union Mullah Yasin said in a statement today that lifting the ban on international flights from airports in the Kurdistan Region reduced the size of losses for the private sector more than 20 million dollars a month.

He expected the trade process to improve within the sector after lifting the ban.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Tuesday the reopening of Arbil and Sulaymaniyah airports for international flights after a five-month ban.

US President George W. Bush's envoy to the international coalition against an organized organization in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the United States to lift the ban on international flights from airports in the Kurdistan region. French President Emmanuel Macaron welcomed the decision.

The British government welcomed the decision by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to lift the ban on international flights from airports in the Kurdistan Region.

The leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, earlier in the day lifted the international air embargo on airports in the Kurdistan Region "a good step" to resolve the differences and outstanding issues between Erbil and Baghdad.

Barzani wrote on social networking sites that "the lifting of the international air embargo on the Kurdistan Region is a good step towards resolving the outstanding issues between the two sides."

But Barzani added that "it is necessary to remember that the problems and issues existing between the Kurdistan Region and the Iraqi state can not be reduced through issues related to airports and budget, but are concerned with political, national, historical, constitutional, humanitarian and economic."

 

 

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2018-03-15 BY SOTALIRAQ

The territorial government and citizens do not pay the debts owed to each other

Heyman Hassan

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and citizens owe each other without knowing the fate of each other's debts. This situation has created a state of mistrust between them. The region's share of the budget for this year does not seem to be able to address the problem.

The protests of the region's teachers against the system of saving salaries this year to close the doors of some schools in the Kurdistan region and resulted in the boycott of the study process more than once as other employees of Kurdistan in the same situation.

The Kurdistan Regional Government decided to save part of the salaries of employees since 2016 because of the financial crisis, which means that they spend part of their salaries only while the rest of the rest depends under the name of savings and remains a debt to the government without a bank account or official guarantee suggests payment of that debt.

"Vice President of the Finance Committee in the Parliament of Kurdistan told" Niqash "that" the government of the region owed the staff seven billion dollars and investors ten billion dollars and does not have a mechanism to pay their debts and does not know how to spend the debts obtained from companies. "

Government indebtedness exceeded employees. It is a city for the money of some investors who have completed projects in the past and have not received their money, which has caused some projects to stop as well.

On the other hand, some companies owe the government a small amount of money owed, although the government of the region has put in place procedures to return the money.

The deputy head of the Finance Committee in Parliament: "Before the emergence of the financial crisis in Kurdistan, the KRG gave the amount of 800 billion dinars to investors and have returned more than (130) billion dinars, but the government did not pay the debts owed to investors.

In February of 2016, the government asked investors to repay their debts within six months, but debt was suspended due to investors' demands and pressures.

"Some of this debt has been repaid by investors and the government during the past period and about 30 percent of the debt problem between the two sides has been dealt with, but the government and the investors are still indebted to each other," said Yasin Mahmoud, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Investors Union.

"There is a new attempt by the Council of Ministers of the Territory and the Ministry of Finance to pay the two sides the debts of the counterparty, and is scheduled to issue instructions on the resolution in the near future," without giving details.

Not only the government is the city, but the citizens also have debts due to the government estimated by the Finance Committee statistics of three billion dinars, namely electricity and water, and advances loans for marriage.

In November last year, the government waived some of its debts owed by citizens and decided to exempt war victims from paying debts owed by the "marriage, real estate and housing fund" debts they had received in previous years.

But the government's exemption covers only a fraction of the debts owed to citizens and paid in a few monthly installments.

"The debts of the citizens are paid monthly, and the debts of the companies have been paid off some of them and some remained as they are, and changes in the volume of those debts every month," Sven Dzaii, spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government, told Niqash.

As for the government's debt repayment to citizens waiting for imports, which began to decline since 2014 because of the financial crisis and cut the share of the province of the budget by Baghdad, "when the increased imports of the region will be repaying those debts," adds Dzi.

The Iraqi parliament ratified the draft of the budget for 2018 despite the objections of the Kurds, this is the first time after 2003, which is reducing the share of the region from the budget from 17% to 12%.

Citizens and the government are looking to get money from Baghdad to the region to pay off their debts, but it seems that the low rate will not solve the problem between them as officials have already warned that the regional budget was reduced to 12% will not be enough.

Khalid Haidar, professor of economics at the University of Sulaymaniyah told Niqash that "since the government is the executive authority and can issue laws and regulations, it can also collect its debts from citizens. As for the debts of citizens, the government is obliged to pay them. If the government does not pay its debts to citizens This will create a lack of confidence and a threat to the economic future of the region. "

"The provincial government is waiting to send the budget by Baghdad to pay the salaries of citizens and not to pay the debts."

In the past four years, all attempts to reconcile the government and the citizens over the debts have not resulted in results. The most prominent of these attempts was a proposal made by the provincial councils in November last year to pay the government debts of employees from their salaries, including electricity, traffic fines and other debts.

"We submitted this project to the government twice, but it rejected it because it could not be implemented in the current situation," said Khanzad Younis, a member of Erbil's provincial council. "We have put in place all the measures that the government and citizens could have paid off their debts."

The government's argument for rejecting the project is that its implementation needs details and a long period of time. All employees must have bank accounts. The government does not have enough imports to pay debts and can only pay salaries, according to a member of Erbil provincial council.

So far, the Ministry of Finance has retained payroll files, although a proposal has been made to transfer the savings of salaries to a staff bank account, even if it is symbolic.The government decided this month to set up a new department called the "Government Debt Department" to regulate and record the debts obtained internally and externally as well as the salaries of the employees who will be treated as debts, but it is not known whether the establishment of this department will guarantee the exchange of debts between the means for the government of the region to obtain its outstanding debts as well as repay them. He told Niqash that "the contracts concluded by the government to obtain foreign debts are unclear, To repay them, while the internal debt will be obtained part of it from the citizens through banks, such as mortgage and marriage.

government and citizens or not.

Hawar Sheikh Raouf, an expert in banking, said that the banking system is "the best"

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/03/15/حكومة-الإقليم-والمواطنون-لا-يسددان-ال/

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Iran welcomes recent agreements between Baghdad and Arbil

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's ambassador to Iraq Erj Musjedi said today that the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes the latest agreements between Baghdad and Erbil, including the reopening of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in Iraq's Kurdistan region.

• 2018/03/16 - 01:18 
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According to the agency Tasnim international news that Iraj Masjedi said in a statement to the dialogues and agreements between Baghdad and Erbil in recent weeks, saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always stressed the necessity and importance of dialogue to resolve differences in Iraq.

The Iranian ambassador in Iraq noted Tehran's good and close relations with all political parties and nationalities in Iraq, saying that Iran supports any efforts to settle disputes peacefully and within the framework of a unified Iraq and the constitution in this country. Between the two sides.

He said the new agreements between the two sides, including the resumption of the activities of Arbil and Sulaymaniyah airports in Iraqi Kurdistan, were "effective" in the normalization and strengthening of economic and social relations inside and outside Iraq. He hoped that the new agreements between Baghdad and Erbil would improve the economic situation and investment in different parts of the country. More than before, and that the problems be solved gradually and through the efforts of both sides.

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Washington is pressing Baghdad to return the Peshmerga to the disputed areas

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Treasures of Media - The newspaper "the new Arab", Friday, the pressure exerted by Washington on Baghdad to engage the Peshmerga forces in the management of disputed areas again, noting that the government has not decided on the subject so far.

The newspaper "New Arab" in a report on a senior Iraqi official said that Washington "wants to be involved Peshmerga in the management of disputed areas again, and pressure on Baghdad for that, but so far the government has not decided on the subject," noting that Kurds "are using the paper the egg Qaban they own in the elections, as their support for any of the two teams Baghdad means to get the prime minister by the electoral majority that will be formed after the elections."

"The Kurds are trying to return the Peshmerga to the areas they came from in Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk and Nineveh through the Joint Operations Room proposed by the Americans," the official said.

 He explained that "the problem lies in the fact that the Kurds are basically outside the Green Line (the borders of the provinces of Erbil, Dahuk and Sulaymaniyah in 2003 before it was approved as a province), and there are cities in which they do not want the Iraqi forces to enter or manage, at a time they must withdraw from them, Seeking to return to Kirkuk and other areas under the title of joint operations. "

According to the same official, "the federal forces have sufficient capabilities to protect these areas and do not need the Peshmerga forces or other, and Iraqi forces treat the population as Iraqis regardless of their race or religion, as evidenced by the population of those areas.

For his part, the leader of the Arab trend in the city of Kirkuk, Ahmad al-Obeidi, that "the Arabs of Kirkuk reject the return of Peshmerga to the region under any names, and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces to prevent this happening, so there is no cooperation with the Peshmerga again in Kirkuk, We do not interfere in the security policy of the state, "explaining that the reason" is that the Peshmerga practiced ethnic cleansing against the Arabs and Turkomans under the pretext of protecting Kirkuk from dashing. "

Al-Obeidi added that "the Arabs and Turkomans of Kirkuk were pleased with the decision of the leadership to impose the rule of law and the return of the central government to our province for the first time since 2003 and the citizen with security and stability." He said that " , And so far we do not know the fate of the investigation into hundreds of security incidents. " 

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First Published: 2018-03-16

Makrama Abadi to the people of Kurdistan

Iraq's Kurdistan is one of the most powerful, prosperous and prosperous Iraqi states, better and more honorable than the illusion of making it a small state that will not see the light in decades to come.

Middle East Online

By: Ibrahim Zubaidi

Finally, the Dawa party forced the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan to bow to its will, to comply with all its decisions and orders without discussion, and excuse it to preserve the unity of Iraq, the land and people, and reject the violators of the law and the Constitution. In other words, Haider al-Abadi did the Kurdish people, with all its political, tribal, regional and feudal strata inherited from ancient times, unless one of the rulers of the Iraqi state, Sunni or Shia, Muslim, Christian or Jewish, , Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and the seal of the mighty and the mighty, Saddam Hussein. It has managed to take away the right of administration, authorization, control and supervision of all the entrances of the region and its known and unknown destination, and to abstract its government, practically and practically, from its powers and shut the door from now to God's will, not only on secession. May call on the Kurds to return to them, after they grew up and the years of years. After months of collective punishment for the people of Kurdistan, Abadi lifted his ban imposed on international flights through Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports, after the Kurdistan government responded to the requirement to hand over the airport administration to the old Dawa party. He had earlier recovered the authority to manage the region's resources from Kirkuk oil and border crossings. In this way, Massoud Barzani, by his illegal and unjustified withdrawal and his threats of secession, slaughtered us from the vortex to the vein and blew up the corrupt federal system from its roots and announced to the world that all Iraq, from its south to its north, One unified colony attached to the state of the Wali al-Faqih, even if he hated it. Although the decision to open the airports and pay the salaries of employees better than not issued, but the people of Kurdistan will not return this decision to the former freedom and love of old life, but will remain under the hammer of the Iraqi allies, Iranians and Turks, not for short. Massoud Barzani, who abandoned power after dragging all these calamities on the Kurdish people, commented on the decision saying that "the problems of the region with Baghdad are not limited to airports and the budget only." He stressed that "the problems between Baghdad and Erbil are historical, political, national, humanitarian, economic and constitutional "He said. This confirms that he is still in the same arrogance and stubbornness and lack of understanding of the conditions of the region and the world, and still manages the same broken cylinder that broke down and became fragments. The fact that we should remind our readers here is that Haider al-Abadi, despite his harshness and his might, may soon become a thin dove of peace with Kurdistan if the will of the higher door in Tehran is achieved and Hadi al-Amiri is crowned prime minister or other Islamic militia hawks who do not Mercy. And the preaching that we come out of all that happened, after it was proved that the alliance of Kurdish leaders, especially two of them, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, with the parties of the mandate of the jurisprudent and intelligence Hafez al-Assad and Bashar, was a fatal mistake, is that the continuation of the Kurdish government and its parties in the quest to restore old alliances , And to reach agreement with those parties and militias, again, a waste of time and effort, and to catch a mirage. After Massoud and Jalal and their colleagues, the leaders of the Kurdistan Front turned their backs on the Iraqi liberal democratic forces of the Arab and Kurdish, from the days of the former Iraqi opposition, even before the invasion of Saddam years, and conspired against them, and Hamshuha, and prevented them from entering their club after the US invasion and occupation of Iran, which they considered feudal Without their partner, that the rational Kurdish masses understand that their leaders, by their arrogance, corruption and arrogance, have not spoiled the political, economic, cultural and social life of Kurdistan alone, but rather slaughtered the dream of the entire Iraqi people in the birth of their new state. Democratic and enlightened civilization, the state of justice, equality and the rule of law, and cooperated with their partners in quotas to adopt the culture of forgery, embezzlement and fighting. All the devastation caused by the Iraqi-Iranian and Kurdish political allies is not only in Iraq's Kurdistan but in all of Iraq, and the future devastation of the new coming leaders, Hadi al-Amiri, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qais al-Khazali, in the coming days, would not have happened had the Kurdish leaders, The former regime and after it, did not ally themselves with the parties of the Supreme Leader of Iran, even if they insist that the Iraqi Kurdistan in one strong Iraqi state safe and prosperous better and more honorable and better than the illusion of a small state will not see the light in dozens of years.

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Keywords for "Khandan": sending the salaries of the staff of the province before Norouz

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BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Mahdi al-Alak said on Friday that Baghdad would send salaries of Kurdistan region employees before Nawruz. 

In a statement to "Khandan", on the sidelines of his participation in the ceremonies to commemorate the tragedy of Halabja, he said that the salaries of the staff of the region will be sent before the holidays of Norouz. 

The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi, recently announced that the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region will be sent before Nuruz.

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The school reference calls Baghdad and Erbil for more meetings to solve the problems

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The religious authority Mohammad Taqi al-Madaris on Friday called on officials in Baghdad and Arbil to hold more meetings to resolve outstanding problems and overcome the negative effects of the past, stressing the need to build a national partnership and achieve integration among Iraqis.
"The officials in Baghdad and Erbil hold more constructive meetings with the aim of achieving maximum integration among the Sons of Iraq within the framework of the Constitution in order to overcome the negative effects of the past and build a national partnership to become Iraq," the school said in a weekly statement received by Al-Ghad Press. An example to be followed in the region to overcome the strife of sectarianism and ethnicity. " 
On a separate level, the school expressed its regret "for what is happening in the area of Afrin, which we were and still are indispensable if we return to the values of our religion and the interests of our homeland." 
"Violence is inherited only by violence and the only way to overcome the injustices of our peoples is constructive dialogue to achieve justice for all, in the shadow of the values of religion and the interests of the nation," he said.
"We must avoid the region from all that could be the cause of the outbreak of the military conflict, because the region is now a barrel of gunpowder, and any emergency spark can cause disasters that no one survives;

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Jordanian Airlines to resume flights to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah and offer discounted prices

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Royal Jordanian Airlines announced on Friday that it will resume scheduled flights between Amman and Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq starting on April 1. The two passengers will also be offered a discounted price of 280 dinars for both return and return flights.

"Travelers to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah can buy tickets from today until the end of this month to travel between April 1 and June 8, 2018," the company said in a statement.

"Royal Jordanian will operate 10 flights per week to Erbil and four flights per week to Sulaymaniyah," the statement added.

 The decision to resume flights in light of the announcement by the Government of Baghdad to reopen the airports of the two cities in front of air traffic, after all the airlines operating to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah has suspended flights to them on the twenty-ninth of September 2017. Ended / 25

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A Debtor’s Crisis In Iraqi Kurdistan

Hayman Hassan

The Iraqi Kurdish authorities owe many state employees months in back pay. The citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan owe the government a variety of fees. But right now, it seems nobody is getting anything.

15.03.2018  |  Sulaymaniyah

 

KRG bank (photo: Hemn Hasan)

In the semi-autonomous, northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan, there are a lot of debts to be paid – and everybody owes somebody money.

One of the most pressing issues is that of the partial payment of salaries to those employed by the government. Iraqi Kurdish teachers have recently been protesting about this again, causing the closure of some local schools, and other state employees have done so in the past.

As for what the government owes its citizens, it is under pressure to pay that money back at some stage. If it doesn’t this creates a serious lack of trust.

As a result of its financial problems - caused, partially by the security crisis, a fall in oil prices and ongoing wrangling about their share of the national budget - the government of Iraqi Kurdistan decided to “save” employees’ salaries in 2016. This means that a part of any employee’s salary was paid to them as usual and the other part was withheld, with a view to returning it later. It was a debt that the Iraqi Kurdish government owed to its people.

Earlier this month, the authorities decided again to set up a whole new department – the department of government debt - to deal with this issue. They had announced they would do this last year but nothing really happened.

The department should log all of the money that the Iraqi Kurdish government owed and also what was owed to them. The staff salary “savings” are meant to be part of this but it’s hard to know how the department could enforce any exchange of cash. As yet, there is no dedicated bank account to deal with this issue and nobody knows when repayments might happen. 

“The Kurdish government should pay their people back around US$10 billion, and then another US$10 billion to other investors,” Ali Hama Salih, the deputy head of the Iraqi Kurdish parliament’s finance committee and a member of the anti-corruption Change movement, told NIQASH. “But it has no mechanism in place to pay anything back.”

“When the government’s revenues increase again, it is going to pay those debts,” says Safeen Dizayee, the spokesperson for the Iraqi Kurdish government and a member of the region's biggest political party, the Kurdish Democratic Party.

Over the past four years, nobody has managed to figure out how to pay government employees back what they are owed. One of the ideas suggested by provincial councils late last year was that the government deduct the money they owe citizens from citizens’ bills for power and water and for other payments such as traffic fines.

“We’ve suggested this project two times now,” says Khanzad Younis, a member of the Erbil provincial council. “But the government refused, saying such a thing cannot be implemented right now. That is despite the fact that we outlined all of the specific things the government and citizens should do to have these debts repaid.”

The Kurdish government told the council members that it would all take too long and that too much information was required, that nobody had. It also requires all employees to have bank accounts, which they do not. Additionally, the government still only has enough money to pay the proportion of salaries it is liable for.

Another proposal says that a bank account should be opened, and all of the savings should be deposited in there eventually. This would be impossible currently and anyway, the ministry of finance has all of the details of what is owed. Still, the idea was thought to be a symbolic step in the right direction. However, this has not happened either.

And there is an added complication. In November 2017, the government waived some payments that local tax payers were supposed to make to it. This includes some payments for water and power, marriage license fees and loans for housing, saying that those who had been impacted badly by the fight against the extremist group known as the Islamic State should not have to pay these. The debt that locals owe the Kurdish government apparently totals around IQD3 billion (around US$2 million) and is slowly being paid back via small monthly instalments, Dizayee explains. But this is nothing when compared to the larger amount of back pay owed to employees.

“Given that the government is the executive authority in Iraqi Kurdistan it could issue new laws that allow it to collect those debts from citizens faster,” speculates Khalid Hayder, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. “As for what the government owes its citizens, it is under pressure to pay that money back at some stage. If it doesn’t this creates a serious lack of trust and endangers the whole region’s economic future.”

Right now, it seems the Kurdish government is waiting for the federal authorities in Baghdad to pay them their share of the federal budget. But, he adds, when it comes, that is most likely to be used to pay the outgoing salaries of citizens and not the debts.  

The Iraqi government passed its 2018 budget earlier this month, and although wrangling continues as to whether it is actually workable, one thing does appear to have been made clear: The percentage of the income that the Kurds get has dropped. Politicians have already warned that they won’t be getting enough to pay back the debts they owe their own employees and voters. The debtors’ standoff looks likely to continue.