Minister of Finance Territory: Relations with Baghdad is very good and continuing to pay salaries
Minister of Finance Territory: Relations with Baghdad is very good and continuing to pay salaries
2019/5/27 11:15
“The relations with the federal government are very good,” said the minister of finance in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Rabaz Hablan, on Monday, adding that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi “plays a very positive and patriotic role.”
“Our relations with the government are very good and the prime minister is playing a very positive and patriotic role and he has been able to maintain the political balance,” Halban told a joint news conference with a spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government. “We offer our thanks to him on behalf of the Kurdistan Regional Government.”
“The Kurdistan Regional Government paid 6 trillion and 475 billion dinars for salaries of employees during the nine months of last year,” he said. .
He added: “Baghdad sent the salaries of five months this year by two trillion and 262 billion dinars, while the Kurdistan Regional Government added 1 trillion 831 billion dinars to pay salaries,” adding that “we assure the staff of the Kurdistan region to continue to pay salaries once every 30 days.”
Halaman pointed out that “the statements that talk about sending Baghdad salaries of the Peshmerga for 4 months and the reluctance of the territorial government to pay is incorrect and we confirm that the central government has not paid any of the dues of the Peshmerga so far.”
The Minister of Finance of the Territory that “the Kurdistan government pays the accumulated dues to local and international contractors of the proceeds of oil revenues and other internal revenues, where the Ministry of Natural Resources paid 200 million dollars and 35 million dollars to us on a monthly basis for this purpose,” explaining that some “make statements Incorrect to mislead citizens in order to achieve political goals. ”
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