The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 27-FEB-2011. The results were as follows:
| DETAILS | NOTES |
| Number of banks | 12 |
| Auction price selling dinar / US$ | 1170 |
| Auction price buying dinar / US$ | —– |
| Amount sold at auction price (US$) | 127,960,000 |
| Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) | —– |
| Total offers for buying (US$) | 127,960,000 |
| Total offers for selling (US$) | —– |
Source: CBI
Baghdad (CNN) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave government ministers 100 days to deliver results and eliminate corruption or be fired, the government announced after an emergency cabinet meeting Sunday.
The announcement follows weeks of demonstrations across the country by protesters angry about unemployment, poor basic services, corruption and a lack of freedom. (more…)
Unlikely to be comparable to the protests that have rocked Iraq uprising
Staff of the Arab world and toppled two systems but it is the pressure on the new government to promote reform, fearing demands Ptnhiha.
And got thousands to the streets all across the country on Friday in the “Day of Wrath”-style anti-government protests, which have proliferated in the region such as fires that are difficult to control in recent weeks.
I recommend the Baghdad conference of Action for the work which was organized by the Hall of the Faculty of Physical Education at the University of Baghdad, Iraq Company for exhibitions and international conferences sponsored by the University of Baghdad and the Faculty of Physical Education.
The judge said Delisa E.. Ridgeway in the court of international trade that Iraq has begun to develop in the area of commercial justice and opportunity for progress and development forward.
Judge International Delisa, referring to when she presented to Iraq were not expecting that there eager than before Iraqi judges on training and development in this area unique, and that Iraq is among the few countries that possess such experience in this field is important to boost the economy and the regulatory environment and conflict trade.
Demonstrations process legitimate and guaranteed by the Constitution of Iraq. Yes the government has failed in addressing the bottlenecks in the economy, fight poverty and absorption of unemployment as well as financial and administrative corruption rampant in state facilities over the past years, but I think that there are other parties trying to politicize these demonstrations and jump on them to achieve agendas relating to the political process And ignore the demands of the demonstrators and stalling will be the scene of social and political
And the government should begin a rapid pace and to develop solutions for short-term and spot some of the problems related to long-term infrastructure
Baghdad (news) .. The economic expert Ghazi Kanani said that Iraq needs to three years for the advancement of economic reality.
He said Kanani (of the Agency news) today: “Six months is not enough to radical solutions, but we need to for at least three years, adding to the existence of a workshop run (24) hours to get to a quantum leap and good service.”
He called Kanani government to “remedy the situation through the presence of a bona fide attempt to campaign reform and the launch of economic laws, noting that most of the projects being prepared by the Government seven years ago have not been implemented did not knock brick one has enormous benefit to the Iraqi people.”
A member of the House of Representatives for the National Alliance Fouad Alldorki that “the law of oil and gas since 2007 is included on the agenda of the House of Representatives but failed to acknowledge the result of political differences.”
The Alldorki in a statement to the radio station “if the approval of oil and gas law in the previous parliamentary session to Iraq was producing large quantities of oil and we have the sufficient cash flow from the money that solves a lot of bottlenecks and problem particularly with regard to the operation of hands unemployed and the provision of the ration card items.
Zebari
Received, and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in his office on the afternoon of 02.27.2011 the Kuwaiti ambassador in Baghdad, Mr. Ali Mohamed Hassan insured During the meeting,
Review relations between the two brotherly countries and ways of enhancing them for the achievement of The interests and prosperity of the two brotherly peoples
Malaki
“The financial and administrative corruption entrenched in government institutions and can not be cleaned only by a wholesale revolution against corruption” and “The clearance of these institutions and bring in competent ministers take time,” he explained, “The Hundred Days posed by al-Maliki to improve performance the government will not accomplish nothing noteworthy for many reasons, “
FBI Seal
Added the Iraqi Cultural Centre in Washington, the Culture Ministry’s effectiveness of a new series of events retrieve the missing Iraqi artifacts a year after 2003, with 28 pieces, where part of them back to approximately the year 3000.
An official source in the Information Office of the Ministry of Culture said in a statement received by the independent press (Iba) a copy of the Iraqi ambassador in the United States, Samir Sumaida’ie, the receipt of these pieces through a memorandum of receipt by the Attorney General of the state of Delaware, the U.S. and in the presence of a group of officers of the FBI who able to get those pieces of people who were trying to sell ..
American Flags
A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb public sector unions that has galvanized opposition from the American labor movement.
In one of the biggest rallies at the state Capitol since the Vietnam War, union members and their supporters braved frigid temperatures and a light snowfall to show their displeasure
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Iraqis Demonstrate
A number of Iraqi activists call on the Facebook site for the organization of new demonstrations across Iraq on Friday, they called it “Fri martyrs” to commemorate those killed in recent days.
The 18 people were killed during the demonstrations that took place last Friday and Saturday to demand better services and combat corruption.
The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 27-FEB-2011. The results were as follows: Details Notes Number of banks 12 Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1170 Auction price buying dinar / US$ —– Amount sold at auction price (US$) 127,960,000 Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) —– Total offers for buying (US$) 127,960,000 Total offers for selling (US$) —–
Academy Award
This weekend is Oscar mania, when actors earn national-spotlight recognition and awards for their work – and also get showered with swag.
Even the nominees who don’t win their category at Sunday’s 83rd Academy Awards walk away with gift baskets filled with expensive knick knacks – expensive as in worth upwards of $100,000, according to Gwen Flamberg, Beauty Director at Us Weekly Magazine.
“It’s become kind of insane, but it has also become a failsafe way for brands to get their products or destinations right under the celebrity’s nose,” Flamberg said. “People are rabid for what celebs are buying and owning.”
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President Obama in the Oval Office
President Barack Obama says the economic recovery will stall if Congress can’t agree on spending cuts and avoid a government shutdown.
The current budget expires next Friday. That means lawmakers must OK a new spending plan before the March 4 deadline to keep much of the government from running out of money and closing. The Republican-run House and Democratic-controlled Senate are bickering over how much to cut.
Council of Ministers decided to reconsider the peace salary contained in the law of salaries of state employees and the public sector No. 23 of 2008.
A source familiar with in a press statement that “this decision was made according to a draft law the salaries of senior government officials and staff
The law, approved by the Council of Ministers last week, and sent a copy of it to the House of Representatives for approval, with effect from the first of April next, to determine my salary, the President and the Prime Minister of the eight million dinars paid nominal and four million dinars allocations presidential elections, while giving the President of the House of Representatives a monthly stipend of twelve million dinars, while the salary of the minister identified five million dinars and a nominal salary of three million dinars allocation position, and gives a member of the House of Representatives a monthly stipend of eight million dinars.
A member of the House of Representatives on the mass of Iraq Emad Youkhana The steps the Council of Representatives towards the implementation of the requests of citizens began to adopt the budget with the deputies to their home provinces to meet with citizens directly and receiving them and displayed next week at a meeting of the House of Representatives for and speed in responding.
He Youkhana told the independent press (Iba) The House of Representatives, seeks through its representation of the people for the implementation of legitimate requests for improved services and activate the ration card items and spoilers to the judiciary.
Reporters had been decided to arrest, torture and brutal treatment by the government forces of oppression, brought a lawsuit against the so-called Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Nuri al-Maliki.
He said media personnel in a statement published on Sunday they had been arrested and tortured after their coverage of popular passion, which was launched last Friday in Tahrir Square, downtown Baghdad. Stating that these arbitrary measures came as part of the crackdown against journalists and the press, so they decided to file a lawsuit against Maliki, who is behind these arrests.
The journalists in their statement, which followed him at a conference attended by representatives of the Iraqi and Arab press and foreign: that the arrest was made without formal notice and without declaring the military were arrested for the same, while the number of them said they had been subjected to beatings and brutal torture during arrest and during interrogation.
Nouri al-Maliki
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Sunday, and his cabinet ministers not to take real action against corruption in the circles that follow their ministries and they will be directly responsible for any case of corruption or fraud, or set on the basis of illegal or favoritism, and Siqalon and brought to justice, stressing the need for referral of the elderly to retire to make way either set of young people.
The Central Bank of Iraq adviser said on Sunday that Iraq’s per capita income will reach 2016 to 9000 U.S. dollars.
He said the appearance of Mohammed Saleh told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the average per capita income of Iraq would, according to the development plan adopted by the State after six years to 9 thousand dollars, after contributing to economic development activities in the lift according to the plan drawn up by the government.”
Jala Talabani
The visit of President Talabani to the State of Kuwait in the twenty-fifth of February at the official invitation; for the participation of the Kuwaiti people’s celebration, which coincides with this year’s fiftieth anniversary of the independence of the twenty-editing and the fifth to take Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ruled the country, carrying more significance in shaping the future of the two brotherly peoples and present their bilateral relations by, and as the first visit of President Talabani since he took power in 2005 by another, as it complements shuttle visits by each of the two foreign ministers and senior politicians and officials, most recently visiting Prime Minister of Kuwait to Baghdad in January 12 ; and Prime Minister Maliki to Kuwait City on 16 February this.
Neighborhood: left Kuwait today by President Jalal Talabani, President of the Republic of Iraq and the delegation accompanying him and after participating in the national celebrations of the State of Kuwait, the fiftieth anniversary of independence and the twentieth anniversary.
Source at the Customs Department revealed to the media he was returned to the amount of 1,000,200 thousand dollars politicians tried to out them out of Iraq. A source at Baghdad International Airport, the airport witnessed the movement of displacement of a large number of Iraqi MPs and politicians,
The country has been nearly three weeks, popular demonstrations inspired by the events that roam the Arab countries which have yet to fall of political systems in Tunisia, Egypt, and the concentrated demands of the demonstrators in Iraq to provide services and employment opportunities and the maintenance of freedom and to ensure freedom of expression as well as punish corrupt people in the state, has included some of clashes between security forces and demonstrators, leading to a large number of victims among the dead and injured when protesters set fire to buildings government, especially in the city of Kut, Wasit province, after it launched the security forces fired on demonstrators, killing one and injuring 49 others.
Delivered by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s speech at the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, select the period (100) days after the assessment of the work being individual ministries and see how their success or failure in performance of work assigned to them, starting from today’s date. The Prime Minister will be making changes to the light of the outcome of which will end the assessment.
He touched on sovereignty in to ways to combat corruption, stressing the responsibility of each minister what is going on in his ministry before they reach the Integrity Commission and other relevant institutions to fight corruption.
Expressed member of the parliamentary oil and gas, Sunday, for the determination of its review of licensing rounds, the three contracts entered into by the previous government, indicating that it is not bound for Iraq in case the Commission considered the economic damage and you will be prompted to change them.
He said Furat al-Shara told the Kurdish news agency that the Committee on Oil and Gas plans to review three decades licensing rounds in a scientific and more seriously in order to know how useful to be reaped by those contracts to a political oil in the country.
