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Iraq's Budget: $ 41 billion
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Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [12/30/2006]
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The first deputy chairman of the Iraqi parliament, Khaled al-Attiyah, said that the general budget for 2007 is 41 billion dollars, and includes allocations for security affairs of 7.5 billion dollars.
Al-Attiya said in a press conference on Sunday that the budget had been referred to the Economic and Investment Committee in the Parliament for consideration and preparation of the final report after the Eid al-Adha holiday, pointing out that the budget will provide more than 136 job opportunities for Iraqis.
On his part, the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Safaa Addeen Assafi, said that the budget is encouraging and large compared to the past budgets. It is even more than the current year budget by 11 billion dollars.
Assafi added that investment expenditure in this budget amounted to ten billion dollars and the expenditures allocated for security are 7.5 billion, in addition to doubling the expenditure of education to reach 6.2 billion dollars, while the health sector allocations are 1.8 billion dollars, at a rise of 71%.
The Iraqi minister declared the formation of central committees to activate the application of projects or withdrawal of funds from some ministries in case they failed in implementing their projects and transfer them to other ministries succeeded in the implementation of the projects assigned to them.
Simultaneously, Iraq suffers from a significant deterioration in the security situation, which negatively affects all economic activities.
In an evolution in the security file, the Iraqi Minister of the Interior said on Sunday that about 12 thousand Iraqi police have been killed since the overthrow of former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, due to the increasing armed clashes, suicidal operations and explosives recently.
The Iraqi Ministry of Health estimated, in November, the number of civilians killed since the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003 by more than 150 thousand people. Some estimates reduce this figure to 51 thousand civilians dead, while others raise it to 600 thousand people.
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