Archive for July 9, 2011

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KUWAIT CITY, July 8, (KUNA): Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah stressed the need for Iraq to complete its implementation of UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions as the way out of the Chapter VII of the UN Charter.

The Kuwaiti position was made during a telephone conversation between Sheikh Mohammad and US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. (more…)

Baghdad announced the Investment Authority, Iraq, Saturday, the opening of the Council of the Iraqi Business U.S. officially in the country, to promote the investment opportunities available in the country, while expressing a senior American official desire for leading his country to the implementation of projects in the country in collaboration with government and private sector.

The President of the Sami Raouf Al-Araji “Alsumaria News” on the sidelines of a meeting of the national investment with the Board of U.S. Commerce, following the announcement of the establishment of the Joint Council, said that “the Commission has discussed with the Business Council of Iraq the U.S. on the investment opportunities available in Iraq,” noting that “the including those related to housing and infrastructure needed by Iraq, as well as other economic sectors such as oil, industry and agriculture. “

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Iraq admitted to a government establishment of an Islamic bank with a capital of up to 250 billion dinars (about $ 214 million), under the supervision of the Iraqi Central Bank and is administratively linked to the Ministry of Finance .

And the transfer of the adviser in the government peace Qureshi as saying: «will the Islamic Bank, to attract significant capital and will contribute in the process of banking of Interior and deal with the government and private banks», pointing out that another decision was taken to open windows in government banks to deal in accordance with the Islamic banking system .

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In the context of the visit by to Lebanon, the delegation visited the Iraqi banking includes 22 top of the Central Bank of Iraq and Iraqi banks and the draft financial development of Iraq, the headquarters of the Banking Association, accompanied by Head of the Directorate of Economic Bank of Lebanon, Najib Choucair, where they met representatives of Lebanese banks in Iraq and Iraqi banks in Lebanon .

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BAGHDAD (AFP): Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Saturday after meeting gathering of Iraqi leaders, agreed to discuss over two weeks to report their position on the withdrawal of U.S. troops to stay or leave the scheduled end of the year.

Talabani said in a press conference after the meeting “has been raising the issue of U.S. withdrawal of all its aspects, and the brothers decided to gather their friends and their parties and come two weeks after the definitive outcome.”

The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the rival, Iyad Allawi, leader of the Iraqi List and the President of Parliament Osama al. Also attended by the leaders of the Sadrist movement and the Islamic Supreme Council which is headed by Ammar al-Hakim.

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The FDIC is issuing a final rule that imposes requirements on insured depository institutions (IDIs) supervised by the FDIC that engage in certain retail foreign currency transactions with retail customers. The rule is being issued pursuant to section 742(c)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and will take effect July 15, 2011.

Statement of Applicability to Institutions with Total Assets under $1 Billion: The FDIC believes no FDIC-supervised banks in this size category are affected by the final rule. The rule does not cover traditional spot and forward contracts; therefore, only institutions planning to engage in foreign currency futures, options, or rolling spot contracts would be affected.

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VietFinanceNews.com – Allegations of bribery in cash or kind will be investigated once evidence is in hand, officials say. The Ministry of Public Security is looking into allegations that a Vietnamese official accepted bribes in exchange for providing a multi-million dollar currency contract with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s currency-maker, Securency.

In January, the Australian newspaper, The Age implicated a number of Asian treasury officials in accepting bribes in exchange for providing government currency contracts with Securency.

Following information contained in foreign media reports, Vietnamese authorities have asked foreign justice officials to provide evidence to local investigators, said Trieu Van Dat, deputy director of the Counter Crime Police Department at the ministry. He added that Vietnamese police have yet to find evidence of official wrongdoing.

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On: Saturday 07/09/2011 16:26

Baghdad (news) .. said President Jalal Talabani, about the success of the meeting of leaders of political blocs, which was held at his home on Saturday. Talabani said at a news conference attended by the reporter Agency (news) today: “The agreement was to form committees of all the blocks, to implement the Arbil,”
Adding: “The meeting will be held after the last two weeks, to reach a final agreement on all the differences, particularly between the Iraqi List and the rule of law.”

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Meeting of political leaders: The activation of a committee to implement the agreements, including an expanded U.S. presence ..
On: Saturday 07/09/2011 19:03

Baghdad (news) .. Held an important meeting of political leaders at the Peace Palace in Baghdad, in response to the invitation of President Jalal Talabani.

And a statement by the Presidency of the Republic received the Agency (news) a copy of it on Saturday: “The meeting was held in an atmosphere characterized by positive and frank and express concern for the interests of the public and national and sense of responsibility towards them, and in stems from the national agreements the previous in the forefront of an agreement of Arbil.”

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7/9/2011 6:02 PM

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: President Jalal Talabani announced today that the political leaders agreed in their meeting today to activate the role of the committee formed according to the Arbil Agreement.

Additionally, it was noted that the question of U.S.forces in Iraq shall have a final decision in two weeks.

In a press conference held by Talabani at the end of the meeting in his residence, he added that the “political leaders agreed to activate the Arbil Agreements, and shall take a unified stance on the question of the U.S.forces, whether they shall be asked to extend their presence or not two weeks from now.”

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07/09/2011 17:17

Baghdad / With
Announced the presidency in a statement today on the outcome of a meeting parliamentary leadership in the Peace Palace, the residence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, said the statement, sent a copy of “With” The meeting came in response to the invitation issued by President Talabani and “After the welcome by the President of the Republic of leaders attendance and their representatives, held an important meeting in an atmosphere characterized by positive and frank and express concern for the public and national interests and sense of responsibility towards them, and what stems from agreements made in the previous national agreement, including Irbil. ” As described by the statement

Adding, “and took place at the meeting extensively discussed the general situation in the country and the relations between political forces in parliament and in government and ways to avoid crises and down to the work of the joint national aware of the sensitivity of the current circumstances and responds to the needs and requirements of the interests of public and promote the building of state institutions, the National Democratic accommodating for all”

Was reached in the wake of in-depth and frank discussions to the agreement announced by President Jalal Talabani in a statement to the media follow-up of the meeting, which indicated

That the meeting was “frank and fraternal and resulted in good understandings.”

And Adavg Tallbani in his statement, “It was a frank discussion on a number of important issues, including the U.S. military presence in the country, then the subject of agreement Arbil and its application.

And everyone expressed their opinions openly, where the closing of Mska through the agreement to activate the committee were present, but it stopped .. The committee initiated proposals to implement the agreements within two weeks, and they can be implemented and require

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08/07/2011 15:57

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A member of the parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee on Friday said that his committee is waiting for a detailed view of the Council of Ministers on the development of the port of Kuwait Mubarak, noting that Iraq had transferred the problem to the Security Council because the people’s patience has its limits.

The Attorney Hassan Khudair Chuird told (Voices of Iraq) that his committee “awaiting a unified view of the committee of the Council of Ministers, which he has to give the opinion detailed by experts specialized matters technical, marine and officially on the status of the port of Mubarak, Kuwait and a port of Faw important for the Iraqis.”

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Kuwaiti ambassador:: Iraq’s oil fields beyond the common call for international supervision by the
Saturday, July 9, 2011 11:55

Charged the Kuwaiti ambassador in Baghdad, the Iraqi side to waive the joint oil fields between the two countries and calls for the supervision of international oil companies by the neutral.

The ambassador said to the insured in a meeting with the Agency for all of Iraq [where] will be presented in full later that “the Iraqi oil fields beyond the common border between the two countries without the payment of financial dues owed by Iraq in the extraction of oil from those fields.”

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BAGHDAD (Iba) … Student member of the House of Representatives for the Iraqi List, Hassan Chuird the Iraqi government to activate the role of trade unions and give them priority in building the strategy Iraq economic development plans.

He Chuird in a statement received by the independent press (Iba) a copy of it and during a meeting with members of the General Federation of Trade Unions on the importance of the working class and the need to give priority to this important segment.

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08/07/2011 09:53:43

BAGHDAD (Iba) … Held Jnacún Economic its eighth Ashrbriash Deputy Prime Minister, the Chairman of the Committee to Dr. example, has typically Nuri Shaways and was attended by members of the Committee gentlemen and ministers (finance, oil, trade, agriculture), President of the Board of Supreme Audit and the President of the National Investment Commission and the Assistant Secretary General for Administration and Finance and representatives from the Ministry of Finance and Industry and Minerals and the Ministry of Planning and Central Bank of Iraq.

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Baghdad, July 9 (Rn) – The adviser to the CBI on Saturday, said that a plan he described as “high level” of a twinning between the banks of Iraq and international banks to develop a system of payments in the banks of the country. and bank adviser said the appearance of Mohammed Saleh told the Kurdish news agency ( Rn) that “the central bank operates according to high-level plan for the provision of legal requirements and technical conduct of twinning and broad between the government and private banks, and between the international banks on the other hand to develop the payment system, banking and regulation of financial trading and cash it.”

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Morning to Clinton on Iraq, the implementation of Security Council resolutions to emerge from Chapter VII

Posted 09/07/2011 08:14 AM

NEW YORK (AP): [Kuwait] Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah on the need for Iraq to complete the implementation of all UN Security Council resolutions relevant, stressing that this is the only way out of Iraq, believes the umbrella of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

Came to renew the position of Kuwait during the phone call he received from Sheikh Al-Sabah and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States Hillary Clinton, who quoted the country thanks to the facilities provided by Kuwait to secure the exit of U.S. troops from Iraq.

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Baghdad (news) .. Began meeting of leaders of political blocs, the home of President Jalal Talabani, leaders Alsaassen the presence of all invitees.

A reporter (news agency of the sons) located there: that al-Maliki, Allawi, Hakim and Najafi and Soi just to the home of Talabani, and the meeting immediately.

He added that the meeting would discuss the agreement of Arbil and Limbering ministerial only

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Iraq’s leaders are meeting Talabani’s house today to melt the ice differences
09/07/2011 10:54

Baghdad, July 9 (Rn) – starts with the leaders of Iraqi political blocs, on Saturday morning, held their meeting at the home of President Jalal Talabani is the second of its kind to dissolve the differences between my state of law and the Agreements on Arbil, Iraq and national partnership.

The leaders of political blocs to a meeting in June 20 last at the home of Talabani, who attended the recent addition to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and representatives of political blocs and lose sight of the leader of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi and the Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, the head of the National Alliance Ibrahim Jaafari.

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Albzona: Baghdad and Washington have signed a memorandum of (military presence) new
On: Saturday 07/09/2011 11:41

Baghdad (news) .. expect the Attorney / Law of the State / National Alliance Jawad Albzona be signed by Iraq and the U.S. military presence memorandum to the survival of a number of U.S. forces, pointing out: that the memo include the presence of trainers and advisers to train Iraqi forces.

Albzona and said (of the Agency news) on Saturday: “that the U.S. side’s desire to keep part of the forces without being identified.”

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Maliki up to the headquarters of the meeting of leaders of blocs, the house of President Talabani
On: Saturday 07/09/2011 11:16

Baghdad (news) .. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the headquarters of the meeting of leaders of political blocs, where the residence of President Jalal Talabani to participate in the meeting of leaders of political blocs, which will be held today.

A reporter Agency (news) located there: that al-Maliki arrived at the headquarters of President Talabani to participate in the meeting of leaders of blocs.

The Cdhir in a statement (the Agency news) on Saturday: “The head of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, as it reached to Baghdad will attend the meeting of leaders of political blocs, which will be held at the home of President Jalal Talabani, the presence of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and leaders of all political blocs.”

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Baghdad (news) .. A source at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry that the high-level U.S. delegation arrived in Baghdad in a two-day visit. The source (of the Agency news) on Saturday: the high-level delegation comprising members of the U.S. Congress and the Government of the United States and arrived in Baghdad, where the delegation will meet President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other political leaders.

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Cdhir: Today’s meeting of the leaders of the blocks will be limited to the terms of the Erbil
On: Saturday 07/09/2011 10:02

Baghdad (news) .. MP for / coalition in Iraq / Qais Cdhir Iyad Allawi to attend today’s meeting of leaders of political blocs in the event of arrival to Baghdad, noting that the meeting will be limited to the terms of the implementation of Arbil.

The Cdhir in a statement (the Agency news) on Saturday: “The head of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, as it reached to Baghdad will attend the meeting of leaders of political blocs, which will be held at the home of President Jalal Talabani, the presence of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and leaders of all political blocs.”

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