Archive for June 8, 2011

Revealed information from investigative files to about $120 million pass through Iraq or bleaching (laundering) the month … Is deposited in personal accounts for Iraqi leaders and foreign officials and owners of companies and parties, while Iraqi and foreign investigations confirmed that the amounts laundered in Iraq since 2003 and 2010 exceeded 30 billion dollars.

The American expert that the concepts of money laundering were common and entrenched power in Iraq under the authority of the interim administration in Iraq, headed by Ambassador Paul Bremer.

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BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq’s Cabinet held a live televised meeting on Tuesday to discuss progress made over a 100-day timeframe set by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, who pulled back from a threat of ministerial firings.

Analysts have warned that while short-term progress has been made, little in the way of landmark legislation has been passed, key issues remain unresolved and protests have already been called for Friday.

The televised Cabinet meeting, which Maliki said would set out ministers’ accomplishments and future plans, had an early focus on energy and electricity, issues which loom large in a country which relies on oil exports for 90 per cent of government income but suffers a massive power shortfall.

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Update:  CBI Governor Shabibi will speak June 23rd at 12:30 pm (Agenda: Link)

THE INTERNATIONAL ARAB BANKING SUMMIT (IABS) 2011

The Union of Arab Banks and Associazione Bancaria Italian will host the annual International Arab Banking Summit (IABS) for 2011 in Rome-Italy on the 23rd – 24th of June 2011.

The Summit is the annual international platform for ministers, governors of central banks, leading bankers, decision-makers and representatives of public and private sectors from various continents to meet and discuss issues of concern to the international banking community and wider world economy.

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The coalition that underpins Iraq’s national unity government is showing increasing signs of strain. The possibility that the governing alliance, formed in December 2010, will disintegrate comes at a particularly difficult time in relations between the United States and Iraq—the United States, despite believing it would be a mistake, must withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq unless the terms of the current Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) are renegotiated.

The United States is pressuring Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to renegotiate. Meanwhile, Maliki, who would like a continued U.S. presence, does not dare revisit the agreement for fear it would break the coalition—Moqtada Sadr has already organized demonstrations against a continued U.S. presence and has threatened to leave the government if U.S. troops stay past the end of the year.

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Session 66: June 12, 2011 @ 2:00 pm
First: read verses from the Koran.
Second: The second reading of the draft Law on the Ministry of Youth and Sports. (Commission on Youth and Sports). (17 articles).
Third: the second reading of the draft Law on the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. (Commission for Tourism and Antiquities). (11 articles).
Fourth: The second reading of the draft law to protect journalists. (Commission on Culture and Information). (17 articles).

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Considered the Virtue Party, Wednesday, that the mandate of the national security adviser Faleh Al-Fayad receipt bag the National Security Agency aims to put pressure on the political blocs in order to expedite the resolution of file security ministries, likely to resort Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to appoint other ministers security proxy, as he emphasized that the controversy concerning This file is limited to the Ministry of Defence.

A member of the Virtue Party Mura’bi Hussein in an interview with “Alsumaria News”, “The remarks show that the political blocs on the appointment of Ministers of security will not end during the current month,” likely to “turn Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to set the rest of the acting security minister.”

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Newspaper: “gold fever” in the channels of sewage in Baghdad

Beirut, June 8 (Rn) – made the “New York Times” the American so-called “gold fever” in Baghdad, where tours are unemployed sewer and sanitation, in search of gold deposits in the downstream areas, shops craftsmen jewelers and gold in the Iraqi capital .

The newspaper pointed out that groups of desperate men are several times each month to get out into the darkness of the depths of up to 15 feet in search of crumbs of gold that may have been washed away to the sewage canals after the end of the craftsmen work on gold and jewelry.

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Description of the Islamic Supreme Council, on Wednesday, set the national security adviser, Faleh Al-Fayad, Minister of National Security Agency and the action “improper” and called on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to lift all obstacles to the appointment of ministers of security and raise the performance level of the Iraqi armed forces.

The MP said the Council Hamid vegetation in an interview with “Alsumaria News”, “The appointment of a Minister acting to take over the portfolio of national security regardless of the person conducting improper” and called on Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to “lift all obstacles to the appointment of ministers of security.”

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Wednesday June 8, 2011

BAGHDAD – The Feed – The Italian Foreign Minister on Wednesday morning in Baghdad, an official visit, at the head of a large economic delegation.

A source at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry that “the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini arrived in Baghdad, this morning, on an official visit, heading an economic delegation comprising a number of representatives of companies from the Italian President and the appropriate infrastructure and engineering,” noting that “the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was in Frattini reception at Baghdad International Airport. “

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Iraqi reveal a U.S. call for a meeting between Allawi and al-Maliki?

Palms – A spokesman for the Iraqi List, said that the meeting which brought together the existing leader Iyad Allawi, the U.S. ambassador and the commander of U.S. forces two days ago, focused on ways to bridge the gap in views between Allawi and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, referring to the existence of two new initiatives to resolve political differences.

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Iraq-based Rasheed Bank has expressed interest in getting its human resource trained by MCB Bank and wanted to introduce latest banking technologies adopted by the Pakistani bank.

The interest was shown during a visit by a high-level delegation of Rasheed Bank, led by its Chairman Khadim M Nashoor, to the head office of MCB Bank where they discussed the possibility of collaboration between the two banks. MCB Bank Chairman Mian Muhammad Mansha was also present.

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Allawi empty-handed: Goodbye Policy Council

Allawi may be out of the game. Close to him say he was worried his coalition in the event of adjournment Older Nuri al-Maliki to declare a majority government, ending a partnership flabby. Documented sources say that the components of the Iraqi secret conduct dialogues with the state law without the knowledge of Allawi as a prelude to acceptance in the government of the majority.

These sources indicate that the National Alliance are dialogues with the National Dialogue Front led by Saleh al-Mutlaq and pool (Iraqi), headed by Osama Nujaifi gathered (future) and the other with the exception of the National Accord Movement, headed by Iyad Allawi.

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Barzani is preparing to visit Baghdad to bring the Iraqi rule of law

Kirkuk (Rn): A member of the House of Representatives of the Iraqi Kurdish coalition, today that the President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani, is preparing to visit Baghdad in mid-June of this, to address the existing problems between the coalition of law and Iraqi List, in the view of Iraqi political blocs that Barzani’s visit to Baghdad constitute an important step to resolve the political problems in the country.

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Iraq’s oil production has risen to 2.63 million barrels a day, up by 15 percent from the same period last year, according to Bloomberg.

Crude exports averaged 2.18 million barrels a day in the first five months of 2011 and are expected to increase in the second half of the year, Hussain al-Shahristani, deputy prime minister for energy affairs, said during a Cabinet meeting on the government’s performance in its first 100 days.

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Tight security in Baghdad for three car bombs and suicide

A source in the Baghdad Operations Command, to the correspondent of news agency the future “and with” the Baghdad Operations Command, in cooperation with employees of the Ministry of the Interior carry out a security clampdown in Baghdad for three car bombs, the source said, that intelligence information indicated the presence of three car bombs in Baghdad, in addition to a suicide bomber driving one of those cars, and between the source, that the security forces intensified their actions in the general areas of Baghdad to make sure that information.

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President Jalal Talabani, with the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey and the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the cooperation relations between Iraq and the United States.

The presidential statement said that President Jalal Talabani and Gen. Jeffrey Austin political situation in Iraq and ways to strengthen bilateral relations in all fields, and renewed during the meeting, President Talabani, Iraq’s desire to deepen cooperation and coordination to promote these relations to serve the higher interests of the peoples of the two countries.

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Palms – A senior source revealed the appointment of leadership in the reform movement, Faleh Al-Fayad, Minister of National Security Agency after Anglguet all the doors of breakthrough on the political blocs to set the security minister after fourteen months of the recent parliamentary elections.

The source, who asked not to be named, told through the media: that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the appointment of Fayad, Minister of National Security Agency, without giving further details.

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CBI reduces the importance of administrative procedures in the Commercial Bank of Iraq

Central Bank of Iraq said that what happened in the Investment Bank of Iraq does not affect in any way to Rsanth and its internal and external.

The bank said in a statement obtained (citizen) a copy of the Iraqi Central Bank which holds that the financial system in general and banking in particular has a seriously strong and cohesion firmly correlated and the real capabilities and financial resources for the national economy, noting that the administrative procedures in the Trade Bank of Iraq (T NBA ) do not have any effects directly or indirectly, the safety of the banking business and Iraq’s relations with the local or international bank, and did not change the capacity of the financial stability of the country according to the data and the fundamentals of monetary and fiscal policy.

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Keywords reveals breaches of the Trade Bank of Iraq

Confirmed the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers recording violations in a large transactions Trade Bank of Iraq, as well as chairman of the board.

The Secretary General of the Council of Ministers on the Keywords in a press statement carried by the agency «Nina» news yesterday: «that among the transactions pursued by the Director General of BADEA loans compliments to some people, which led to the loss of millions of dollars of public money, as well as the presence of excesses and observations related to appropriations documentary, which suspended trading documentary ».

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Hussein al-Shahristani, the deputy prime minister also said Iraq’s plan to increase oil production capacity to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 Silazemha expansion in oil export facilities, and that it expects to produce 5 million barrels per day during the 3 years.

Al-Shahristani told reporters that the expansion project currently under implementation in the southern port of Basra involves the construction of tubes and tube offshore Berri and four berths for the loading of oil tankers at a total cost about 3.1 billion dollars.

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The Committee which visited Kuwait would submit its report today or tomorrow

The spokesman for the Iraqi government that the committee formed to visit Kuwait for the purpose of discussing the outstanding problems with Kuwait, including the Port Mubarak will report today or tomorrow to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

He said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh in a statement to the Baghdad international news agency that the committee formed after Kuwait announced its intention to build a port Mubarak and I went to visit Kuwait Stvdm its report to the Prime Minister today or tomorrow to clarify what has been reached in this regard
He added that the committee will provide its findings and the work of field visits to the Council of Ministers to be then discuss the report at meetings of the Council in order to be Atkhama procedures and diplomatic solutions appropriate to reach a solution with the Kuwaiti side for many of the outstanding issues, including the port of Mubarak.

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Arbil, June 7 (Rn) – President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani, the President of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, said Tuesday, the political issues of the current Iraq, especially the problem of filling posts of the security ministries, stressing at the same time the need to implement political agreements, according to a statement posted at the official site to the presidency of the province.

The statement, seen by the Kurdish news agency (Rn), that “Allawi and Barzani discussed the latest developments in the political arena in Iraq, the two sides exchanged their views on all fields and areas.”

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Showed economists fear of a possible rise in inflation rates in Iraq a year after the operations grant staff loans and advances, emphasizing the importance of follow-up to market fluctuations during the period equivalent to the distribution of those sums among the beneficiaries, stating that the process of pumping a cluster of large cash in the street resulting in naturally high rates of inflation, pointing at the same time the possibility that markets are construction materials, real estate, as well as car prices rises significantly in the coming days after the distribution of funds among the beneficiaries, arguing that increased demand for residential buildings or the construction of additional units, or on their way to buy cars, the resulting to the rise in prices may occur in line with periods of credit.

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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced his intention to apply a new plan for a hundred days to come to improve government performance and support the earlier deadline. Advertising in the regular public meeting of the Council of Ministers to evaluate the performance of ministries to citizens, which aired live on the air.

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Erbil, June 8 (AKnews) – The 100-day ultimatum set by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in February for his council of ministers to “shape up or face the consequences” expired on Tuesday amid assurances from the PM that no top politicians would be dismissed.

Maliki insisted on Monday evening that his ultimatum, declared in the midst of angry public protests across Iraq calling for governmental reforms, had been misinterpreted.

“There are those who want to confuse the concept of this initiative,” Maliki said to the state television channel Iraqiya.

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Wednesday June 8, 2011
House of Representatives held its 66 Sunday on his agenda is the second Koran for a number of projects

BAGHDAD – The Feed – The decision of the House of Representatives, Mohammed al-Khalidi, “The first legislative term of the second legislative year of the Council of Representatives will begin its work next Sunday.”

Khalidi said in an interview Oklp news public on Wednesday that “the agenda of the meeting 66 of the House of Representatives to be held next Sunday, will include the second readings of the draft law to protect journalists and the law of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Law of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.”

“As the 67 meeting will be held on Monday, the agenda will include a climb of foreign ministers of transport and on the relations, Iraq – Kuwait and land and sea borders, the port of Kuwait Mubarak.

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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is getting frustrated with “national partnership” and power-sharing – again. His media statement today, timed to coincide with the end of the “100 days” announced by him in late February as a window for improving government performance, echoed similar remarks by him two years ago following his success in the local elections in January 2009. Back then, he became the first Iraqi politicians to craft a critique of the concept of an oversized national government unity. In Maliki’s view, a “political majority” cabinet – in which some groups would be deliberately left “outside the tent” – offered better prospects in terms of efficiency and governance.

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Irbil (news) .. search Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Region in the resort of Salahuddin in Arbil on Tuesday, with Ayad Allawi, head of the list Aerakipalaaudhaa politics and security in the country.

A statement by the Presidency of the Kurdistan Regional Office received (IAEA Alaboukharipllanaba) in Arbil, a copy of it: President Barzani, Allawi discussed the latest developments in Iraq at all levels, which emphasized the consolidation of efforts for the unity of the Parties to the political and the implementation of political agreements, and work to fill the ministries security, and the formation of the Supreme Council for the strategic policies in a consensual, so the government can secure the services and the provision of security in the country.

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The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 8-JUN-2011. The results were as follows:

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DETAILS NOTES
Number of banks 14
Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1170
Auction price buying dinar / US$ —–
Amount sold at auction price (US$) 137,205,000
Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) —–
Total offers for buying (US$) 137,205,000
Total offers for selling (US$) —–

Faleh al-Maliki called Fayad, Minister of National Security Agency

BAGHDAD (Iba) .. Detect a source familiar with the appointment of leadership in the reform movement, Faleh Al-Fayad, Minister of National Security Agency.

The source, who asked not to be named in connection with the independent press (Iba) that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the appointment of Fayad, Minister of National Security Agency said more than Lyndon Altvasilz

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