The Minister of Finance, Taif Sami, and the Head of the State Council, Karim Khammas, stressed the importance of completing the instructions for implementing the tripartite budget.

The Ministry of Finance stated in a statement, “Sami stressed during the meeting with the Head of the State Council the importance of expediting the procedures for reviewing the instructions for implementing the federal general budget for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 No. 13 of 2023, which was recently approved by the House of Representatives, by doubling coordination and cooperation efforts with all relevant agencies and institutions.”

Sami stressed, according to the statement, “the need to match the instructions for implementing the budget with the draft law and to complete the audit and codification processes and everything related to removing duplicate texts in order to facilitate spending units in Ministries and Agencies not linked to the Ministry of their implementation clearly, and in a way that ensures optimal performance according to economic and development priorities and financial transparency, and improving the efficiency of public spending, ensuring economic justice, and emphasizing that support reaches those who deserve it, in addition to moving towards advancing sustainable development and facing international and local economic challenges.

She urged the Minister of Finance for the Ministry of Planning to issue the necessary controls to facilitate the task of listing projects of an investment nature, as well as all listing requirements.

The statement stated that the technical coordination meetings have been continuing since the beginning of this week between the Ministry and the Implementation Committee of the Instructions, with the participation of representatives of all concerned authorities./ End

Source: National Iraqi News Agency