Kurdish parliament discusses 2009 budget on Wednesday

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The Kurdistan’s region parliament will discuss the Kurdistan region’s 2009 budget during its session on Wednesday, the media advisor of the parliament’s speaker said Tuesday. “The parliament will hold a regular session on Wednesday (June 10) to discuss the region’s 2009 budget,” Tareq al-Johar told IraqiNews.com news agency, noting that special committees will present their reports on the budget. “Kurdish Finance Minister, Baez Talabani, will attend the session,” he added. The 2009 general budget of the Kurdistan region is 283.8 trillion Iraqi dinars, which is 17 percent of the general budget of Iraq . SH (P)/SR 1