The council of representatives held on 4/8/2012 the fourteenth session of the first legislative term for the third year under chairmanship of Osama Al-Nujaifi, the chairman of the council of representatives. The session included the following:
- Presence 205 members.
- The council discussed the visit of the Turkish foreign minister, Mr.Ahmed Dawood Oglu, to the province of Kirkuk based on a request submitted by a number of parliamentarians. Mr. Al-Nujaifi directed to host Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, the foreign minister, in the foreign relations committee to follow up the subject and present a report to the council of representatives.
- The council voted in principle on allocation (300.000.000) three hundred million dollars to the Kuwait Airways Company to pay off the lawsuits filed by the company against the Iraqi Airways Company and Iraqi Government submitted by the committees of financial, service and construction and legal.
- The council decided to postpone voting on a resolution to increase the percentage of agricultural sector budget from the total federal budget for the year 2013 to 10% instead of 1% approximately from the budget of previous years, submitted by the committee of agriculture, water and marsh.
- The first reading of the draft law of Iraqi Media Commission submitted by the committees of media and culture and legal, which aims to establish an Iraqi Media Commission.
- The council finished the discussion of the proposed law to amend the law of the Independent Higher Electoral Commission No. (11) for the year 2007.
- The second reading of the draft law of agricultural quarantine, submitted by the committee of agriculture, water and marsh.
- The second reading of the draft law on ratification of the treaty on ban, use, upgrading and transfer of cluster ammunition for the year 2008 (CCM), submitted by the committees of security and defense and foreign relations.
- The second reading of the draft law of the third amendment for the law of the Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control No.(45) for the year 1979, submitted by the committees of economy and investment and financial.
The session was adjourned until Sunday 5/8/2012
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