15/02/2011 11:02
Kirkuk, Feb.15 (AKnews)- A member at Kirkuk Provincial Council said Kirkuk International Stadium requires 22,000,000 U.S. Dollars to be refurbished.
Yarigai HraDilshad Pirot, the head of the projects committee of the council told AKnews Monday the vice president for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Nechirvan Barzani, proposed for restoration of the stadium and demanded the council to suggest the cost outline for the project.
The outline has been sent to the related bodies in Erbil for scrutiny and now work has began , Pirot said.
The KDP is one of the two major parties in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq. Massoud Barzani, the president of Kurdistan, is leading the party. Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, runs the other Kurdistan major party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
So far, the political parties take their budget from the Kurdish government. Systematizing the allocation of the budget to the parties has become an increasingly controversial issue.
Reported by Nabaz Rostam
Lh/AKnews