Government is for the owners the files in question with Kuwait
On: Wednesday 07/03/2012 10:21




Baghdad / range
cabinet announced that it decided to form a ministerial committee to prepare the outstanding issues with Kuwait and to be discussed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with the Kuwaiti side next week, refusing to discuss the budget within the Council until the court's response of federal law, passed by Parliament earlier. Maliki is visiting Kuwait on 14 this month




To discuss several pending issues between the two countries and the possibility of finding solutions to them, especially the second Gulf War reparations and land borders and sea port and the issue of Mubarak, which created a kind of political tension between Baghdad and Kuwait during the past months. Kuwait and declared their readiness to turn the page past and start a new page of its foreign relations with Iraq on the basis of mutual respect, a position which Hatrha Iraq through the statements of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. He said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement received (range) a copy of it, that "the Council of Ministers decided to form a ministerial committee to discuss the outstanding issues between Iraq and Kuwait."
and added that "the Commission will prepare all the primitives required to enable the government delegation which will visit Kuwait headed by the Prime Minister on 14 this March, to negotiate with the Kuwaiti side to find solutions that preserve the interests of Iraq and its people and end the problems encountered in the development of a positive relationship between the two countries and two peoples and an end to the problems inherited. " and refuses to Kuwait out of Iraq from Chapter VII of the UN Security Council until the fulfillment of obligations owed ​​with respect to three files is the issue of missing Kuwaitis and archives, as well as the issue of border demarcation between the two countries.


It is possible to affect the negotiations the two sides during Maliki's visit to the decision taken by the UN Security Council in June next on the possibility of withdrawal of Iraq from Chapter VII.



In the context of announced last legal adviser to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Tuesday that the budget in 2012 will not be discussed again at the Council of Ministers. The Ministry of Planning has said earlier that the 2012 budget will be discussed in the cabinet of the new reduced payment on credit of $ 27 billion to $ 18 billion. He said Fadhil Mohammed Jawad in a press statement yesterday that "the Council of Ministers has not been raised today in its weekly meeting a budget and decided to send its observations on the budget to the Federal Court." "The meeting of the Iraqi Council of Ministers agreed not to put a budget again in meetings and rely on the response of the Federal Court over the objections of some paragraphs of the budget."
The government has announced that it had decided to go to the Federal Court to resolve the paragraphs of the budget that is not the prerogative of the House of Representatives make changes to . Article 62 of the Iraqi Constitution, "The Cabinet presents the general budget bill and the final account to the House of Representatives for approval." The second paragraph of the same article that "the House of Representatives may conduct transfers between the sections and chapters of the general budget and reduce the total amounts and, where necessary, propose to the Cabinet to increase the total amount of expenditures."
and pointed out that "the Council of Ministers will be carried out paragraphs of the budget agreed by the Council with House of Representatives, but will resort to the Federal Court to resolve some of the paragraphs which are not seen as a specialty at the House of Representatives as provided by the Iraqi constitution, and it is not about to veto or reject the budget. " The Iraqi Council of Representatives has approved during its meeting held on February 23 on the 2012 budget, which amounted to 117 trillion Iraqi dinars, equivalent to about 100 billion U.S. dollars. The Federal Government announced, last Tuesday that it will be amendments to the items added by the House of Representatives on the budget in 2012 to be consistent with legal and constitutional contexts.