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"Kurdistan to raise salaries due to anticipated exchange rate increase this week"

Erbil, November 14 (Rn) – The Military Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior Region of Kurdistan, the ministry’s decision to exchange increase the salaries of its members this week, as The Minister of Finance Government of the Territory to the ministry waiting for internal referral lists the salaries of its members to exchange the planned increase for them.

According to Bakhtiar Baban told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), that “the Ministry of Interior Government of the region referred the lists of salaries Mentsabha to the Finance Ministry to start regardless of the salaries of employees of the Internal Security Forces, with the increases prescribed to them,” he said, adding that “due to exchange rate increases this week.”

For his part, said Minister of Finance, the territorial Government Buys Talabani’s (Rn), that “his ministry had not yet received from the Ministry of the Interior lists salaries Mentsabha,” asserting that “his ministry would seek to pay the salaries of employees of the Internal Security Forces, with the increases prescribed to them immediately upon receipt of such lists.”

The Council Iraqi Parliament had voted early in July last, unanimously passed a bill that the internal security forces, after the amendment to paragraph 89 thereof, which prohibits issue any instructions to force elements of the internal security forces to exercise acts contrary to Islamic law to be amended in accordance with Article II of the Iraqi Constitution , as required by law to disburse the salaries of the forces of internal increases retroactively from the date of the first of January (January) last year.