Decisive” meeting in Baghdad on the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region
Shafak News / The delegation of the Kurdistan Regional Government is scheduled to hold a meeting with the federal government in the capital on the salaries of employees on Friday.
The correspondent of Shafak News Agency said that the meeting will begin after 1 p.m. at the home of Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein, where the regional government delegation consists of about 20 people headed by the Minister of Finance of Kurdistan with the participation of many directors general in the ministry.
He added that the meeting will include a discussion of December 2024 salaries and 2025 salaries.
The roots of the salary crisis in the Kurdistan Region date back to 2014, when the differences between the federal government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government escalated over the management of the two budget oil files, in addition to the consequences of the war on ISIS and the decline in oil prices and the subsequent invasion of the Corona pandemic in the world.
Baghdad stopped sending the region’s share of the budget, and the regional government responded by exporting oil independently, and this conflict led to disruption in the mechanisms of paying salaries, starting a series of delays and financial accumulations.
Since that time, there have been many attempts to find compromises between the two parties, most notably the financial agreements that provided for the disbursement of the region’s share of the budget in exchange for its commitment to export specific quantities of oil, although these agreements have not been fully implemented due to continued lack of trust and political differences between the two sides.
As the differences continue, citizens in the region bear the greatest burden, as calls have recently increased from political and economic activists for the need to implement the decisions of the Federal Court, which affirmed the right of citizens to receive their salaries without any delay, while the biggest challenge remains to find a final solution that ensures the sustainability of the payment of salaries and the removal of its file from politicization.
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