Deputy: Monetary Fund required Baghdad to increase the share of Kurdistan budget for approval and support at the Kuwait Conference of donors
Deputy: Monetary Fund required Baghdad to increase the share of Kurdistan budget for approval and support at the Kuwait Conference of donors
2018/01/31 11:09
Baghdad today – follow-up
Revealed a member of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament, MP Massoud Haider, said on Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund told the Iraqi government clearly not to approve the budget without Rafah share of the Kurdistan region.
“The International Monetary Fund told Baghdad not to approve the budget and to grant loans and financial aid to Iraq, especially at the Kuwait conference without raising the share of Kurdistan to 10 trillion dinars,” Haider said in a press statement.
Haidar had earlier said that “officials of the International Monetary Fund in the Jordanian capital Amman confirmed that if the quota is not increased the Kurdistan region, they will not grant new loans to the Iraqi government, and in this sense Baghdad is forced to conduct negotiations with Erbil.”
Iraq, through a conference of donor countries in Kuwait next February, hopes to receive about 100 billion dollars, equivalent to the federal budget of last year, which amounted to nearly 105 billion dollars, to rebuild the liberated areas, and contribute to the return of displaced people.
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