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“White Iraqiya?” calls for passing Iraq’s 2012 budget of Defense – Interior Ministries for approval before US withdrawal

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of “White al-Iraqiya Alliance,” Aziz Sherif al-Mayahi, has proposed on the government on Saturday to send Iraq‘s 2012 budget of  the Defense and Interior Ministries for both ministries urgently, for passing them by the Parliament,and before the scheduled time of the US troops withdrawal from the country, scheduled at the end of the current year. “The government must take into consideration the importance of sending the Defense and Interior Ministries 2012 budget for both Ministries to the Parliament for confirmation, before the end of the current year that shall witness the withdrawal of the American Forces from Iraq,especially that a large portion of the preparation of our Armed Forces would depend on the urgency of passing the said budget,” Mayahi said in a statement,copy of which was received by IraqiNews.com news agency. He said “the ratification of the special budget for the said two Ministries at the current circumstance shall accelerate the completion of the military and logistic preparation of the Armed Forces,through buying weapons, machinery and appliances that would discover explosives and similar items,” Mayahi said. Iraq‘s Council of Ministers had announced on 18/9/2011 the beginning of the discussion of the Federal Budget draft-law for 2012, including the allocation of 131 trillion (t) Iraqi dinars as a Federal Budget, with an increase of 36% on last year’s budget.

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