Parliamentary meeting to review final report on budget

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A lawmaker from the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) on Thursday said that the parliament is holding a meeting under First Deputy Speaker Khaled al-Attiya with some specialized parliamentary committees to discuss the final report on the general budget of 2009 in order to vote on it. “The meeting is considering two opinions: decreasing the budget by 10 percent of the spending or to leave the budget as it is hopefully the finance minister could present a complementary budget next June,” Nazneen Mindlawi told IraqiNews.com news agency. The meeting was attended by the financial, economic and services committees. SH (P)/SR 1