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Article 12 of the Budget Law is dead in the water again
The Kurdistan Regional Government announced, today, Thursday, its rejection of the proposal to amend Article 12 of the budget submitted by the representative of the federal government in the Council of Representatives.
The spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement that.
"After a series of meetings and persistent efforts aimed at amending the federal general budget law by the Council of Representatives with the aim of resuming the export of the region's oil, and after completing the first and second readings, unfortunately, the draft law was not approved in the agreed-upon form at the last minute."
He added, "What increased our surprise was that the representative of the federal government in the House of Representatives submitted a different proposal to the Council alone, without prior consultation with the Kurdistan Regional Government, and without presenting it to the Federal Council of Ministers for a vote,
which contradicts the previous decision of the Council of Ministers regarding the approval of the draft law amendment for the purpose of resuming the export of oil from the Kurdistan Region."
He continued, "Such attempts only serve to harm Iraq, and contribute to deepening crises instead of finding effective solutions to them," announcing "the government's complete rejection of these measures and proposals," stressing "the necessity of presenting the agreed-upon draft law and approving it by the Federal Council of Ministers and voting on it."
