Financial decision Parliament reveals the date of the visit of the Kurdish delegation to Baghdad and its purpose

On May 7, 2019, the parliamentary financial committee's deputy MP Ahmad al-Saffar revealed the date of a Kurdish delegation from the Kurdistan region, a visit to Baghdad, pointing to the most important files to be discussed in the visit.

Al-Saffar said in a press statement that "these moves between Baghdad and Erbil are intended to resolve all the outstanding issues for several years, including the oil and gas file and customs revenues and article (140)."

"What we seek through these meetings is to overcome all financial differences between the regions and the center," he said.

Al-Saffar believes that "the visit of the Kurdish delegation to Baghdad will be during the month of Ramadan after the completion of the formation of the new government in the Kurdistan region," pointing out that "the ministers candidates for the new government have a great desire to overcome all differences with the federal government."

The Economic Affairs Committee, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Fouad Hussein, held a joint meeting on the twenty-seventh of last April with the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Najirvan Barzani in the city of Erbil, and the two sides agreed to resolve many of the outstanding issues.

The head of the Kurdistan Islamic Union parliamentary bloc, Jamal Cougar, revealed on Tuesday (May 7, 2019), a close visit of a Kurdish delegation to Baghdad, to discuss 5 files, noting that the Kurdish parties oppose the decision to dissolve the Nineveh Provincial Council, for one reason only.

"A high-level Kurdish delegation is preparing to visit the capital Baghdad soon to discuss five files stuck with the government of Adel Abdul-Mahdi in the forefront of the oil file and the implementation of all the provisions of the provisions and paragraphs of the Federal Budget Law 2019."

He added that "among the files to be discussed in this visit is the file of customs duties, the decision of the candidate to the Ministry of Justice, and the dissolution of the Nineveh Provincial Council and its governor, and the situation in the province of Kirkuk and demographic changes from the administrative and geographical aspects that have occurred in the province recently.

The deputy said that "the absence of representation of the Kurdish component in the crisis cell charged by the government in the administration of Nineveh province is what makes us stand against attempts to resolve the Nineveh Council (because we fear) the loss of the Kurdish component of their representatives in the most important city."

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