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Kurdistan-Iraq News in brief
19.9.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil (Hewler), Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan-Iraq, September 18, 2006
Kurdish government complains of unfair budget
KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) complains that
it has not received its share of the national
budget.
The KRG complains that it has not received its share
of the national budget, agreed at 17%. Iraq's income
is overwhelmingly raised through oil revenues. In
2005, the amount allocated to the Kurdistan Region
was almost $36,000 billion, with each barrel of
Iraqi oil selling at $26.
The Kurdish Government states that the Iraqi
government has not increased the region's budget in
line with its own policy to raise government
employee salaries.
"In 2005, the Kurdish government paid four months"
salaries to employees according to the increased
rates decided upon by the Iraqi government. However,
the central government failed to increase the
region's budget in recognition of this, resulting in
many wages, including those of university lecturers,
doctors, judges and police, not being paid," Rashid
Tahir, KRG's Deputy Finance Minister explains.
"This has continued, despite our numerous complaints
to the Iraqi Finance Minister concerning the issue.
We cannot increase salaries without a corresponding
increase in the Kurdish budget."
Hospital to be opened for Anfal and Martyrs
Families
Hospital for Anfal and Martyrs families is set to be
built in Erbil.
In a meeting between the KRG Minster of Health,
Ziryan Authman, and the KRG Minister of Anfal and
Martyrs Affairs, Chinar Sa'ad, it was suggested that
a special hospital be opened to treat the families
of the victims and Anfal campaign, last week.
It is set to be built in the capital city of Erbil.
Both ministers also agreed that those patients,
whose illnesses cannot be cured in the Region,
should be sent for treatment outside of the country.
Hundreds of Arab families settled in Sulaimaniyah
Sulaimaniyah , Kurdistan
Hundreds of Arab families settled in Sulaianiyah
because of terror threats.
Several hundred Arab families, fleeing civil unrest,
religious conflict and terror threats in southern
Iraq, are officially settled in and around the
Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, after being granted
residence permits by authorities in the area.
The source added that besides the flow of Arab
families into the Kurdish region, more that 50
thousand Arab adults from other parts of Iraq have
relocated to Sulaimaniyah to work, a development
causing unrest among the native people in the city
and uncontrollably increasing housing, renting and
market prices.
Locals say the same is true of the other cities in
Kurdistan, such as Erbil and Duhok, which are also
witnessing an increase in Arab families in the
areas.
Observers say that the regional government has not
been able to effectively handle the increasing flow
of immigrants, and that if the situation continues
it could have serious negative economic, social and
political implications for the region.
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