Iraq’s finance minister, Tayif Sami, announced on Monday that her ministry will promptly disburse salaries to employees and retirees of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as soon as the formal payroll is received from the Kurdish authorities. This decision follows last week’s directive from Iraq’s top court, which ordered the Iraqi federal government to ‘nationalise’ salaries of the northern region’s public payroll. Sami today affirmed that the salaries of the public sector employees in Iraq and the northern Kurdistan region for 2024 are fully secured, according to Iraq’s State News Agenc…