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House of Representatives vote on the draft legal cancellation of a contract Ahdab and modify the oil agreement with Turkey

House of Representatives voted in its regular-fifth session, held under the chairmanship of Mr. Osama al-Chairman of the Board of Deputies today Sunday, 27/03/2011 to draft a legal abolition of law on ratification of a contract to develop and produce the Ahdab oil field and the ratification of the Republic of Iraq to amend the Convention on the pipeline, crude oil, signed on 27 – 8-1973 between the Republic of Iraq and the Government of the Republic of Turkey.

At the beginning of the meeting was called to order any of the Holy Quran the Council ended the first reading of the proposed law Integrity Commission after the Council voted to accept the law in principle.

For his part, denied Mr. President of the Council to suspend the meeting prior to the House of Representatives for 10 days due to events in Bahrain, stressing that the rules of procedure provides grants of Representatives holiday for a week to follow up the affairs of the citizens in the provinces, as Mr. Nujaifi condolences of the death of the President’s first parliament in Kurdistan late core Namik Salem and to the MP Safia al-Suhail of the death of her aunt and to the MP, Schiller dear brother’s death.

The Council ended the first reading of the draft Iraqi Housing Fund Act after the Council voted to accept the draft law in principle.

In another matter deputy presented to meet the Yassin, a request signed by 200 deputies to dismiss the Inspector-General of the Ministry of Health against the backdrop of media statements which included the alleged insults to slice the doctors and sent a message to the House of Representatives reduces the down members of the Health Committee of the Council as well as the end of his contract several months ago.

In interventions, Ladies and Gentlemen of Representatives, said MP Abbas al-Bayati said the issue of dismissal of the Inspector General of the Ministry of Health is the responsibility of the party that is linked to them, while MP Sabah al-Saadi support for the dismissal request of the Inspector General, while MP Jaafar al-Moussawi to the interview of the Inspector General of the Ministry of Health as a step first before his dismissal, while MP Khalid Huani that the Inspector General as a particularly are filled through a proposal submitted by the executive authority to the House of Representatives for the purpose of the vote of confidence and fire, guided by the same mechanism, also drew MP Hanan al to the importance of taking a stand on the Inspector General in order to preserve the dignity of the doctors, while MP Amir Kanani on the Parliament’s right to dismiss the Inspector-General of Health MP Haider Mulla was of the view that the Inspector General did not endorse him in the House of Representatives requires the issuance of the recommendation of the Council of Ministers to be relieved of his duties.

In response to the interventions of the President of the Council said that the House will follow the legal ways in this regard, after the Council voted to extend the recommendation of the Council of Ministers for the purpose of exempting the Inspector-General of the Ministry of Health.

By another Council ended the first reading of the proponents of legal abolition of Revolution Command Council dissolved number (943 for the year 1991) and No. (100 of 1995) finished as the second reading of the draft law of the First Amendment on the Law of private investment in crude oil refining No. (64) for the year 2007 after be submitted to the Commission on oil and natural resources report on the proposed amendments to the bill.

In the interventions and proposals, Ladies and Gentlemen of Representatives on the bill, MP Mahma Khalil on the importance of encouraging Iraqis and foreign investors to enter the investment of the oil sector and reduce the duration of the contract to less than 50 years, called the House of Representatives to call on the Ministry of Oil to increase their share of oil to the Kurdistan region in MP Walid al-Hilli the need to support oil investment to improve production and the importance of reducing red tape and provide facilities for investors, while supporting Bayazid Hassan amend the draft law for the country’s need for petroleum products, which requires the establishment of new refineries which is paid to make way for the investors in this area are called MP Mohammad Iqbal to form a ministerial committee on the establishment of oil refineries and focus on licensing to the private sector, while the MP called Najeebeh Najib to the bill to the Economic Committee to make amendments to it.

In response to the interventions, MP Adnan al-Janabi, the Chairman of the Commission on oil and energy that all laws will focus on the domestic investment and to be the regions and governorates rights to build new refineries with the consent of the Ministry of Oil, referring to the time period of 50 years granted to the projects by investors anymore.

It was decided to adjourn the meeting until tomorrow, Monday, 03/28/2011.

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