Archive for February 1, 2011

Shabibi said that according to the Constitution, the central bank is responsible before the House of Representatives exclusively without other authorities., Stressing “that the bank is independent in its functions and  instructions from any institution or body in addition to that he enjoyed financial independence, noting” that the relationship with the government Consultation on financial matters.

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His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace Tuesday UN Secretary General’s Representative in Iraq Ed Melkert and his party.

The meeting was attended by Advisor at the Prime Minister Diwan Mohammad Abulhassan, Assistant Undersecretaries at the Prime Minister’s Diwan Sheikha Itimad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and Sheikh Fahad Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah.

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A member of the National Alliance MP for the Virtue Party Hussein Mura’bi he can not have four presidencies in the country, so must be the leader of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, secretary general of the Policy Board of Higher Strategic, pointing out that this needs to be legislation and amendment to the Constitution.

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President of Iraqi Council of Representatives Osama Nujaifi with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s latest developments in political and security situation in Iraq, particularly with regard to the vacant ministries, and recent security breaches that have occurred in a number of provinces recently.

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I got “Alsumaria News”, a copy of the book issued by the Federal Supreme Court in 2006, a response to a query from the Integrity Committee in the previous parliament about the meaning of independence contained in Article 102 and the difference between what is contained in Article (102) and Article (103) of the Constitution Iraq.

Shows the response of the Court a clear contradiction with the recent resolution issued on January 18 last, Judge attachment to independent bodies of the Cabinet and not the House of Representatives.

Assures the book issued on the ninth of October 2006 and signed by Judge Medhat al-Mahmoud President of the Federal Supreme Court – the President of the Supreme Judicial Council, that “the Integrity Commission under the control of the House of Representatives in the performance of its functions and that the latter has its own reckoning,” asserting that “the integrity runs itself themselves in accordance with its domestic law, like the central bank, which has this independence. “

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Federal Supreme Court confirmed on Tuesday that its decision to link independent bodies under the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers does not violate their autonomy, but is to link these bodies structure of the State to the Council of Ministers or Parliament or the judiciary, stating that the Central Bank to protect it from any point of trying to interfere with his work, uncertain that critics of the decision see him from partisan corners.

A spokesman for the Federal Supreme Court, Abdul Sattar Bayraktar said in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “The decision of the Federal Court decision to link independent bodies under the chairmanship of Minister does not violate their autonomy, but to link these bodies structure of the State if the Council of Ministers, or Parliament, or the authority jurisdiction, “noting that he” is not permitted to be any body outside the structure of the state that was independent. “

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H.H. PM receives UN Sec. Gen. Representative in Iraq

KUWAIT, Feb 1 (KUNA) — His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace Tuesday UN Secretary General’s Representative in Iraq Ed Melkert and his party.

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Alsumaria News / Baghdad
I got “Alsumaria News”, a copy of the book issued by the Federal Supreme Court in 2006, a response to a query from the Integrity Committee in the previous parliament about the meaning of independence contained in Article 102 and the difference between what is contained in Article (102) and Article (103) of the Constitution Iraq.

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2/1/2011 11:24 AM

KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: The next Arab Summit shall convene in Baghdad in its scheduled time next March and the current incidents in Egypt or any other country won’t affect its holding, the Legislature from the National Coalition, Abdul-Mahdi al-Khafaji said on Tuesday.

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Maliki vows to central bank independence and authority elections

Palm – Nuri al-Maliki pledged to Prime Minister of Iraq that the development of independent bodies like the Central Bank under the authority of the Council of Ministers would not harm their independence.

He was re-Maliki took a second term in December under the Convention on the fragile division of power between political parties, Shiite and Sunni, Kurdish, and the effects of the court ruling was criticized by opponents fear that the Shiite leader wants to strengthen his authority.

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The United States will not be able to protect its diplomats in Iraq adequately if it sticks to the plan to withdraw its last 50,000 troops by December, potentially hindering American efforts to reach out to the Iraqi people, according to a new report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 

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Schedule of UN Operational Rates of Exchange
The Operational Rates of Exchange were last updated for the effective date of 01 Feb 2011.

The next scheduled change will be effective 15 Feb 2011 (print date 11 Feb 2011)

See below for exchange rate table

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A member of the parliamentary Finance Committee said on Tuesday that the meeting scheduled for today to discuss the federal budget has been postponed until tomorrow because the minister of Agriculture was unable to attend.

The Finance Committee are planning to assess the monetary needs of the Agriculture ministry in order to allocate appropriate funds to ensure the development of the Iraqi agricultural sector.

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MP, Arkan Zebari, expected “To endorse the Federal Financial Budget of 2011 on next February.”

He stated to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) “The reason behind the delay in endorsing the budget on last period is the change of the oil prices as well as the Premier’s request to add and amend some issues within the budget.”

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A member of the Iraqi Council of Representatives for a Kurdish coalition, said Tuesday that there is an agreement between the Government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the federal states to begin the province to export its oil abroad today.

He said Abdul Hamid, Buffy told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) announced today that “The Ministry of natural resources in the Kurdistan region will begin from the day the export of 100 thousand barrels of oil a day, across the line of the Iraqi national carrier oil.”

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VietFinanceNews.com – Over the past decade, the trade deficit along with high inflation has been named as the most alarming threat to Vietnam’s macroeconomy and to monetary management. From a monetary aspect, the question is how will the exchange rate mechanism help cure this pain?

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VietFinanceNews.com – Consumer prices are going up in Southeast Asia as countries recover from the global slump, with food and fuel inflation a particular concern in some, meaning central banks will probably have to tighten monetary policy.

Thailand raised its policy rate in January, its fourth increase since July 2010, and economists expect another rise in March. Vietnam, which is struggling to prop up its currency, raised rates in November and may have to raise them again after the Tet holiday this month.

Speculation is growing that Indonesia’s central bank will tighten policy on Friday.Below is a snapshot of Southeast Asian inflation trends and how policymakers are responding. (more…)

Iraqi Parliament, Parlamani Iraq

Baghdad, February 1 (Rn) – still the Federal Court decision on linking independent bodies Iraqi cabinet minister cast a shadow on the political scene in the country, at the time promised to the Electoral Commission, the decision “dangerous” and called for a retreat with him, he saw the deputy he was “binding” for all.

And the Federal Court on 18 of the past month, a decision to link with independent bodies under the chairmanship of cabinet and not under the chairmanship of the House of Representatives.

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World Trade Organization

Baghdad, Feb. 1 (AKnews) – The director of economic relations in the Federal Trade ministry said on Monday that his ministry backed the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s decision to enter into a third round of negotiations over granting Iraq permanent membership.

Hashem Hatem told AKnews that Iraq is working according to a well-prepared plan to raise its status from observing member to permanent member of the WTO without affecting the country’s internal economic situation.

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President met with the House of Representatives by Mr. Osama Abdel-Aziz al-Najafi, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and discussed with him the general political situation and the outstanding issues in the political process, and the work of the parliament and government, and the relationship between them.

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Hosted the House of Representatives in its regular Twenty-seventh, which was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Osama al-Chairman of the Board of Deputies today Tuesday, 02/01/2011 Heads of the Integrity Commission and the Independent Higher Commission for Elections and the media and communications in addition to the Governor of the Central Bank to discuss the Federal Court decision on the independent bodies.

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Said the French ambassador in Iraq Boris Bwalun that his country supported Iraq in the move to get rid of international sanctions and out of the seventh item on the final form.

The Bwalun for “life” on the sidelines of a meeting with the representatives of the media at his home in central Baghdad that Paris «supports the possible solutions to bring Iraq into the international arena because it plays an important role in the balance».

He pointed out that Iraqi relations – French «seen great development in all areas last year».

And refused to charge Bwalun his country by encouraging emigration of Christians from Iraq and said that «the wounded receive salvation comes from the church door humanitarian cooperation, and that Paris has already received 50 injured other injured bombings, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry» in September (September) in 2009.

He said «We’ve met with wounded bombings Our Lady of Deliverance of treatment did not take them as refugees, and we are firm and religious diversity of Iraq’s National, and advise all not to bow to threats of terrorism, and avoid falling into the trap of strife between the Iraqis».

He pointed to the need to against ignorance and violence in the country to which everyone can live safely in the current circumstances».

The ambassador, who is preparing to leave Iraq after the days following the decision by his appointment as ambassador to Tunisia, he had lived a rich experience in Iraq will take advantage of them and will work with the new Tunisian government and civil society organizations to achieve the aspirations of the people of Tunisia.

And agreements between Iraq and France said that his country is waiting for an opportunity to end the negotiations to open a line of air transport between Baghdad and Paris, which will be managed by a French company, and exports between the two countries amounted to more than $ 2.5 billion in 2010.

The Bwalun arrived in Baghdad in September (September) in 2009, and the title of a man difficult tasks due to Traveling Permanent in Baghdad and the provinces and visit the Mutanabi Street and the reference Ayatollah Ali Sistani at his residence in Najaf, which is the surprise of Diplomatic sources of foreign identified movements in Iraq .

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Discusses the House of Representatives in its resolution today, the Federal Court judge attachment to independent bodies of the Cabinet amidst conflicting views on the subject.

Some observers believe the resolution will be the first confrontation between the parliament, which he considered as prejudicing the constitution and independence of the bodies, and the new government, which you can find just a legal opinion in order to organize the work of state institutions.

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Leader of the Iraqi List headed by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Tuesday, to invite the President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani to visit the Iraqi capital Baghdad and participation meetings of the political blocs.

The MP said the beauty of watermelon to the Kurdistan News Agency (Rn) announced today that “the President of the Kurdistan Region to attend the meetings of the political blocs to be held in Baghdad,” adding that “most of the political agreements held between the political blocs was on his own initiative.”

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Confirmed a member of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Tuesday, the committee postponed its meeting until tomorrow, because it could not attend and the minister of agriculture concern the meeting of prime minister.

A member of the Finance Committee for a coalition of Kurdish blocs Najeebeh Najib told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) announced today that “The Finance Committee discussed the redeployment of some of the money from the door to another door, within the budget year 2011 of money that can be transfers were without it having an impact.”

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Maliki has promised the Iraqi prime minister Monday that the establishment of independent bodies like the Central Bank under the authority of the Council of Ministers would not harm their independence.

He was re-Maliki took a second term in December under the Convention on the fragile division of power between political parties, Shiite and Sunni, Kurdish, and the effects of the court ruling was criticized by opponents fear that the Shiite leader wants to strengthen his authority.

Maliki told the heads of independent bodies that would like to assure them and all Iraqis that the rule of the Federal Court will not deprive the independent agencies of independence in any way as long as they abide by the laws of the government.

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MP Mohammed Burhanuddin that the budget of 2011 discussed some of its clauses to host the Minister of Finance of the parliamentary session, has been traced back to the Council of Ministers of the amendment and forwarded it to parliament for ratification.

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A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport said that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent his private plane to Cairo International Airport for the transfer of Iraqis living in Egypt and returned to Iraq in light of the events taking place in Egypt.

The move comes at a time and decided to evacuate the Iraqi Ministry of Transport of Egypt for free over the Iraqi Airways.

In a report from Cairo that the first Iraqi aircraft from the aircraft allocated by the Iraqi government, left the airport in Cairo this afternoon carrying the Iraqis decided to return home.

It is scheduled to be tonight and tomorrow, transport and meals of other Iraqis who gathered at the Cairo airport in the aircraft to Iraqi Airways.

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