BAGHDAD (Iba) .. Research and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, said Sunday, with Almmthelacial of the Secretary-General of the UN Ad Melkert and experts of the Organization of UNAMI in Iraq, Iraq’s relations with the United Nations and the Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations.
Archive for May 22, 2011
FYI: World Trade Organization; Day of Ascension June 1-2, 2011
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsNote: This is a regularly scheduled event. With Iraq’s recent announcement of continued efforts to become a full member of the WTO upcoming ascension dates become more important. Therefore this event may or may not include Iraq.
Nujaifi aware of positive meetings however not notified of emergency session yet
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Candidate, Council of Representatives, Council of Representatives of Iraq, Iraq, Member of Parliament, National security, Political coalition
Decision of the House of Representatives: We were not informed to hold an emergency meeting to resolve the security ministries
5-22-11
Baghdad (news) .. confirmed the decision of the House and MP / coalition, the Iraqi / Muhammad Al-Khalidi that the Presidency did not receive any communication formally or informally by the blocs to hold an emergency session of parliament to vote on the candidates of the security ministries.
The press statement has revealed a close encounter on a round table between the leaders of political blocs to resolve the problem of security ministries, the National Council for the strategic policies.
MP Fatlawi: Political blocs agree on security minister names, Vote expected later this month
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Interior ministry, iraqi list, Massoud Barzani, Ministry of Defence, National Alliance, Saadoun al-Dulaimi, United States Department of Defense
Hassoun Fatlawi: Agreement on the assumption of Ahmad Obeidi, Defense, Interior and Yasiri, and surprisingly the National Security
5-22-11
Baghdad (news) .. A member of the Supreme Council and MP / National Alliance / Hassoun Fatlawi for resolving the candidates security ministries of the Iraqi List and the rule of law. And said Fatlawi in a statement (of the Agency news) on Sunday:
“The candidates for security ministries were Hsmanm after consultation between state law and the Iraqi List, where they agreed to receive Ahmed al-Obeidi for the Department of Defense, and Tawfiq for the Ministry of the Interior, and [in a strange result] Riad for national security.
Minister of Planning: The poor represents 23% of the population in Iraq
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Economic, Economy of Iraq, Government, Iraq, middle east, Warfare and Conflict, World Trade Organization
Baghdad (news) .. called on the Minister of Planning Dr. Ali Yousef Shukri ministries and relevant authorities to the need for commitment to implement the national strategy for poverty alleviation for the years 2010 to 2014 after he became poverty in Iraq is one of the big problems, which is one of the challenges facing the state with all its joints ” .
Commission on Security and Defense Council calls for Maliki to speed up the naming security minister
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: al-Iraqiya, Ayad Allawi, Baghdad, Iraq, iraqi list, Maliki, Nouri al-Maliki, Saadoun al-Dulaimi
Security and defense parliamentary calls for Maliki to speed up the naming security minister
Baghdad, May 22 (Rn) – The member of the Commission on Security and Defense Council of the Iraqi parliament Sunday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to speed up security to name the ministers assume their functions, describing the security situation in the country and the security services Balohmi Palmchterqp.
The Iraqi capital Baghdad this morning a series of bombings left 13 dead and about 73 wounded, according to statements made by the spokesperson of Baghdad Operations Command, Qassim Atta, the semi-official Al-Iraqiya.
CBI Daily Currency Auction: May 22, 2011; $202.6 million
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Auction, Business and Economy, Central Bank of Iraq, Dinar, exchange rate, Iraq, Iraqi dinar, Price
The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 22-MAY-2011. The results were as follows:
| DETAILS | NOTES |
| Number of banks | 22 |
| Auction price selling dinar / US$ | 1170 |
| Auction price buying dinar / US$ | —– |
| Amount sold at auction price (US$) | 202,609,000 |
| Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) | —– |
| Total offers for buying (US$) | 202,609,000 |
| Total offers for selling (US$) | —– |
Iraq Association of Banks: Banking over the phone mid next year
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, bank, Central Bank of Iraq, Financial services, Iraq, List of banks in Iraq, Mobile phone, Private bank
Baghdad (News) .. The Director of the Association of private banks Abdul Aziz al-Hassoun said that banking via mobile phone will be the middle of next year.
Hassoun said in a statement to correspondent Agency (news) on Sunday: that the idea of using mobile phone banking will be ready by the end of June 2012, after studies and seminars held by the Association to urge the banks to run programs for the modern and sophisticated.
Finding resolutions to Iraq’s unemployment crisis
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Economy of Iraq, Foreign worker, Government, Iraq, middle east, Private sector, Unemployment
Iraqi Minister of Planning: Organization of the private sector guarantees to cut unemployment
The Ministry of Planning said that the organization of private sector projects and activating the support of the Government will reduce the unemployment rates to their lowest levels in Iraq after that and reached 15%, which is very high in a country such as Iraq.
CBI: America’s decision on the protection of Iraqi funds shut out creditors
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Central Bank of Iraq, Creditor, Invasion of Kuwait, Iraq, Paris Club, President of the United States, United Nation, United States
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Adviser said the Iraqi Central Bank the appearance of Mohammed Saleh said in remarks “press” him on Saturday, the presidential order the U.S. on the protection of money, particularly oil revenues for the whole year provided a good opportunity for Iraq to search for legal mechanisms to prevent any risk of the money deposited in foreign banks as block in front of the claim that they are creditors of Iraq.
Saleh added that this decision will prevent any prosecution of Iraq by the creditors or reservations given jurisdiction in the banks that filed by Iraq of its funds from oil revenues.
Iraqi List MP: First laws which will be discussed after the summer recess is the law of the salaries of employees and naming Ministry of Interior
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Interior ministry, Iraq, iraqi list, Law, News agency, Nouri al-Maliki, Political coalition, Reading
Sunday, 22 May 2011
BAGHDAD – The Feed – The deputy of the Iraqi List of Staff Arshad said the House of Representatives will discuss several important laws after the parliamentary recess, pointing out that the debate will be of importance and priority, noting that “the first laws to be discussed is the law of the salaries of employees of the Ministry of Interior that it involved a chip important and large sector of Iraqi society. “
Powers of the National Council for Strategic Policy still hotly contested
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Arbil, Ayad Allawi, Iraq, iraqi list, Massoud Barzani, Nouri al-Maliki, State Law, State of Law Coalition
Sunday, 22 May 2011
State of law bloc calls for Iraq List to relinquish the powers of the National Council of the Supreme policies
BAGHDAD – The Feed – A member of the House of Representatives and the National Alliance MP Hussein al-Assad that among what has been agreed in Irbil is the enactment of the National Council for the strategic policy, but we were surprised as posed by Iraq. “
The MP for a coalition of state law, Hussein al-Asadi, told the news public opinion (and babysit) today: “that the Iraqi list want to be for this Council executive powers and not advisory in violation of political agreements.”
Noting that “this law has no mandate a constitutional formula which is illegal and therefore can not adopt a state executive formula.”
Asadi noted “that if Iraq remained determined to give the position of executive powers of this Council, the coalition of state law will go into Federal Court to overturn it, even if agreed upon at the initiative of Arbil.”
Iraq Coalition: Recent meetings between the blocks yielded positive results
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Arbil, Ayad Allawi, Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan, Iraq, iraqi list, Maliki, Ministry of Defence, Nouri al-Maliki
Sunday, 22 May 2011
BAGHDAD – The Feed – A member of the coalition, the Iraqi deputy Aziz Mayahi that in the event it was agreed between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, the candidates on the security ministries will hold an emergency session of parliament to vote on them. “
And Mayahi told news public opinion (and babysit) announced today that “the differences that erupted recently between the two blocs caused by Saadoun al-Maliki’s nomination to the Ministry of Defense because the position of the Ministry of Defence of the share of Iraq.” He noted: “The recent meetings between the blocks yielded positive results and which we have agreements about the nomination of new names for the security ministries.”
He Mayahi: “Now that the Iraqi names nominated by the Ministry of Defense and await the approval of al-Maliki on them.
Source: Political blocs agree to submit to the security ministries candidates one package
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Arbil, Ayad Allawi, Iraq, iraqi list, Maliki, National security, Nouri al-Maliki, Political coalition
Political blocs agree to submit to the security ministries candidates one package
A source close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki agreed between the political blocs to provide candidates with a single transaction security ministries based on political consensus. There was convergence of views between the political blocs, political blocs presented new names for security bags. The coming days will see these names. The source stressed that special State of law Coalition National Alliance committed to candidates for Ministry of Interior and national security.
GOI announces the complete withdrawal of British naval forces from Iraqi waters
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: British Armed Forces, Iraq, Iraqi Army, Iraqi government, Minister of State, Politics of Iraq, Royal Navy, Umm Qasr
The Iraqi government announced Sunday, the withdrawal of British naval forces from Iraqi waters fully, asserting that Iraqi forces will be replaced. The Minister of State and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “Navy British withdrew completely from Iraqi waters,” asserting that “the withdrawal of troops came after it ended its entirety, which included the training of Iraqi forces,” .
Dabbagh said that “Iraqi forces will replace the British forces after receiving the necessary training to its functions.”
Most of the British forces, deployed in Iraq in 2003 to overthrow the former regime, had withdrawn in July 2009 from the province of Basra, which were stable, and continued the Royal Navy to train Iraqi naval forces to defend the waters of Iraq’s territorial and infrastructure of the oil-coastal, a task that promoted by the main naval base in Umm Qasr.
Meeting between Allawi and Maliki next week; Six demands on the table
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Arbil, Ayad Allawi, Iraqi Kurdistan, iraqi list, Maliki, Massoud Barzani, National Alliance, Nouri al-Maliki
Allawi-Maliki
6 cases the blocks in the negotiations and meet with Allawi and al-Maliki next week
Baghdad (news): MP for / coalition to the Iraqi / Ziyad Tariq content of the paper for the worldwide abolition of the negotiating bloc that would be delivered during the third meeting of the members of the committees, including the revival of the National Council and the rules of procedure of the Council of Ministers.
Iraq in negotiations to become permanent WTO member
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Economic, economy, Economy of Iraq, Iraq, Morocco, Trade, United States, World Trade Organization, WTO
Erbil, May 22 (AKnews) – Iraq is negotiating to become a full member in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the trade minister said today.
Kheirullah Hasan told AKnews that the negotiations have been going on behind closed doors for a while running and will resume in Morocco soon.
Iraqi Trade Ministry: We seek to gain permanent membership of the WTO
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, God, Iraq, Ministry of Commerce, Morocco, Trade, United States, World Trade Organization
Erbil, May 22 (Rn) – The Iraqi Trade Minister, on Sunday, for that the ministry would start talks with the World Trade Organization to gain permanent membership in it.
According to the good God’s good for the Kurdistan News Agency (Rn), that “the Iraqi Ministry of Trade is about to begin talks with the World Trade Organization to gain permanent membership in,” noting that “the World Organization designated Morocco a representative for such talks with Iraq.”
GOI adviser: Economic development in Iraq continues to rise in the country
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Central Bank of Iraq, Economic development, Economic growth, International Monetary Fund, Iraq, National Development Plan
Baghdad, 22 May (Rn) – The adviser in the Iraqi government Sunday that economic development in Iraq continues to rise from year to year, which indicates that Iraq is following a policy of fiscal and monetary mature.
Salam al-Quraishi, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) announced today that “economic development projects on the rise as it decreased the unemployment rate from 52% to 15% and the level of the poverty line from 54% to 23% and inflation declined overall level of 65% to 6% and high power output electricity from 3500 MW to 8000 MW. “
He added, “There is no doubt that there are problems faced Iraqi economic development projects because of foot-dragging in the implementation of service projects and not the financial allocations, as in most years, dating all the benefits to the state treasury.”
