Archive for October 14, 2011

Eight years ago this week…Bush Hails New Currency Ahead Of Launch

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Iraq: Bush Hails New Currency Ahead Of Launch
By Kathleen Knox

Prague, 13 October 2003 (RFE/RL) — U.S. President George W. Bush has hailed the launch of Iraq’s new currency as an important milestone for the Iraqi economy.

In his weekly radio address on 11 October, Bush said the new currency will help unify Iraq, which had previously used two different versions of the dinar in different areas.

“For more than a decade, different areas of Iraq have used two different versions of the dinar, and many of those notes were counterfeit, diminishing the value of those that were genuine. The new dinar will be used throughout Iraq, thereby unifying the economy and the country. The new currency will have special features that will make it difficult to counterfeit,” Bush said.

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Talabani calls for Maliki to stop playing the role of dictator

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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A source close to President Jalal Talabani said the overlapping jurisdictions of the parties to make the executive branch of the relationship between the President and the Prime Minister closer to the anomaly of a normal relationship.

The source, who preferred not to be named, said the Taliban intend to in the next few days to address the al-Maliki about the need to respect the constitutional rights of the President and stop playing the dominant role of the dictator on all aspects of the state as the state suffers mainly from the paralysis of the year.

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Iraq: oil and gas law renews the debate about the relationship between the regions of the central government

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Attended the law of oil and gas power in the expanded meeting called by the «Institute of progress» for policy development, with the participation of a number of specialists in the affairs of the oil and the economy and provided the Engineer Hamza Jeweler vision detailed the required solution for the oil and gas law, which is awaiting approval for years. There was deep in discussions regarding a number of issues relating to the concepts of citizenship and to reconcile the public interest and the common interests between the private and regional issues and other accounts for the management of hydrocarbon wealth in Iraq.

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Expectations of higher value in the Iraqi Stock Exchange

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The chief executive of the Iraqi Stock Exchange, Taha Ahmed Abdul Salam to double the market value of the Stock Exchange from four billion to eight billion dollars as soon as the shares of the three mobile phone companies operating in the country in the Iraqi stock market.

It is noteworthy that any company of the three companies had not yet become a joint stock company, a key requirement and a first step towards a public offering in the Iraqi Stock Exchange, but regulators granted the three companies more time to complete the process which was supposed at the outset to be by August 31

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Iraq’s Permanent Representative in Geneva make a statement before the Iraq Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Opened at United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, on 11/10/2011, the work of the seventy-second session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission which held its meetings from 11 to 10.13.2011 under the chairmanship of the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations in Geneva Ambassador Reinhard Shuaib, During the opening session of the Council elected a new Vice-President to succeed Japan, which left the end of 2010 to be the Second Vice-President in addition to Brazil, where he was elected Ambassador Abdul Samad Minty, South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the job.

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Transportation Ministry: Port Mubarak is a major threat to Iraqi ports; Iraq will accelerate construction of Port of Faw in the coming months

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Ministry of Transport confirmed that the presence of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak would negatively affect the water and Iraqi ports.

The media adviser in the Ministry of Transport Karim Nouri said in a statement singled out by the agency and all of Iraq [where] on Friday that “the concerned authorities and the technical committees in the Ministry of Transport has repeatedly stressed that the port of Kuwait’s Mubarak will be a major threat to Iraqi ports.”

He added that “the states that harbor Mubarak will not pose a threat to Iraqi waters had nothing to do art in the form of danger and damage that would befall the Iraqi ports,” returned is the port of Mubarak as a “subject to the views of art in the Ministry of Transport, the body involved in the damage causing a of Iraq.”

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MP Nassif demands PM to take responsibility for demarcation of the border between Iraq and neighboring countries

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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On: Friday 10/14/2011 12:59

Baghdad (news) .. MP called for the Iraqi bloc white high Nassif prime minister to take responsibility with regard to the demarcation of the border between Iraq and neighboring countries and under the supervision and follow-up directly.

She said in a statement to transfer the Information Office of the Mass and received the Agency (news) a copy of it today: “The failures of the Foreign Ministry in some of the important issues related to the dialogue with neighboring countries with regard to the limits imposed on the government to take over to resolve this serious issue through follow-up and direct supervision of the demarcation the border with these countries. “

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Iraqi List Deputy: Allawi does not plan attend future meetings of the political blocs

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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On: Friday 10/14/2011 9:35

Baghdad (news) .. showed leadership in the block dialog MP / coalition in Iraq / Nahida Daini, the Iraqi President Iyad Allawi, has decided not to attend any future meeting of the political blocs.

Said Dani in the statement (of the Agency news) Friday: There will be side meetings of the leaders of political blocs to resolve issues related to, revealing that Iyad Allawi, has decided not to attend any future meeting of the political blocs, and because the last meeting of the leaders of the blocks was the last leg of the Iraqi and proved This station would be futile as the meetings and wait.

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Legal Expert: Iraqi parliament in March the powers of “executive” in the last chapter

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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14/10/2011 13:16

Baghdad, October 14 / October (Rn) – An expert in the Iraqi law on Friday, the House of Representatives March during the first legislative year of its second executive powers of the jurisdiction of the federal government, noting that the Iraqi constitution, the role of the House of Representatives Select legislation and supervision only.

Critical of the government and the Iraqi Council of Representatives and hold them responsible for trespassing on the prerogatives of the enacted laws without reference to it, the latest proposed amnesty law, which the government decided to withdraw from the Council for re-drafted again.

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Interior affirms its readiness to receive the security file

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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14/10/2011 11:36

Baghdad, October 14 (Rn) – The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Friday said that its troops ready to receive the security file, indicating that its work in this framework is in coordination with other security units.

The assurances of the readiness of security forces at the time of the capital city of Baghdad to the attacks and was described as “violent” caused by the car bomb targeted a security stations in the Rusafa side Alkrah and have left dozens dead and wounded.

And manages the Baghdad Operations Command, the security file in full in the capital, while The leaders of other operations in the provinces control the security file in the provinces in coordination with the police forces.

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