Thread: Iraq/Dinar News Before Febuary 12th, 2006

2007 Budget Passed!!
About time!
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Voices of Iraq: Parliament-Session-Update 1
Posted by: saleem on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 10:04 PM

Parliament-Session-Update 1
Parliament passes 2007 national budget
By Santa Michael
Baghdad, Feb 8, (VOI)- Iraq's Parliament approved on Thursday a ID 42,640,000 million (USD 32,200 million) FY 2007 budget.
The budget approval was delayed for almost two weeks for differences among major blocs over two issues, the financial appropriations for the three presidencies and allocations for Iraq's Kurdistan region's guards (peshmerga).
The parliament passed the 2007 budget in Thursday's session with majority after an agreement was reached to move five percent of the total financial appropriations to the parliament presidency office.
Earlier, the parliament speaker today's ordered a private session to give the defense minister, who was present at the session, a chance to answer lawmaker's enquiries openly.
Some legislators asked the Speaker to declare a private session so that the defense minister could answer all enquiries without harming any classified information that he might be mentioning during the session.
Speaker Dr. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani who chaired today's session ordered all journalists out of the parliament hall.
Thursday's session, the last before a month recess, was expected also to vote on the proposed 2007 national budget.


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