Al-Moussawi reveals American pressure to pass the amendment to Article 12 of the Budget Law.

The representative of the Sadiqoon parliamentary, Zainab Al-Moussawi, revealed Today (Wednesday) American pressures to pass the amendment to Article 12 of the budget law.
Al-Moussawi said in a press statement, “The Finance Committee had previously voted to amend Article 12 of the Budget Law,” noting that “some matters must be clarified, including the interventions on Article 12, and issues related to the consulting company”.
She added, “The costs of production and export in the Kurdistan Region must be known, and a well-thought-out plan must be developed based on the proposed texts, with the possibility of amending them to address the obstacles and ensure the achievement of the law’s objectives”.
Al-Moussawi pointed out that, “the inclusion of the paragraph of the budget amendment for Article 12, which costs the region’s oil production $16 per barrel,” noting that “this amount is very large at a time when the region does not surrender its oil will and Baghdad does not know the actual production volume and there are organized oil smuggling operations outside the country”.