Nujaifi: Cutting funds from Kurdistan is unacceptable politically and legally
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Kurdistan Regional Government demanded Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki to abide by the Constitution and send employees' salaries of the region and not to use this use as a pressure point in the ongoing negotiations to contain the outstanding files.
Baghdad had waved to cut the share of the general budget of Kurdistan in the coming months, if not adhered to the recent export of oil through “SOMO “company owned by the federal government .
Kurdistan has suffered from lack of liquidity in the banks in recent weeks, which caused delays in paying salaries to employees as a result of the delay in Baghdad send of money .
Nujaifi said at a news conference” attended by" Shafaq News” , that " we do not accept cutting off funds from Kurdistan or being besieged and it is unacceptable politically and legally . "
Nujaifi called Kurdistan Alliance to “interfere and cooperate with the political forces to raise some of the unagreed paragraphs in the budget ."