Kurdish region criticizes 2014 budget allocations

[Aslan]

ARBIL/ Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish region government criticized the allocation of 11% of the national budget to the Kurdish side.

Governmental spokesman Sifin Diza'i said that Baghdad government decreased Kurdish regions' allocations from 17% to 11%.

He added that the share of the Kurdish region shall reach 18 trillion Iraqi dinars, out of an overall budget of 175 trillion Iraqi dinars.

Diza'i added that the Kurdish movement will resort to all legal approaches to get the 17% of the Iraqi budget, which "it is a legal and constitutional right of the region".