APNewsBreak: US drops keeping troops in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential for instability.
Under the auspices of the United Nations and the Government of Iraq 30 Iraqi company to sign the Global Compact announces breakthrough in Iraq in order to strengthen joint alagttmaaet responsibility
Press release in an event is historically the United Nations Development Programme and the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to declare the launch of the UN Global Compact in Iraq, a global initiative seeks to strengthen the role of the private sector and social responsibility through sustainable partnerships based on principles of human rights, labor and environmental sustainability and transparency in business.
“This is an event which promotes corporate social responsibility in the Iraqi private sector a step further into Iraq and the Iraqi private sector on the scientific agenda as a key partner in the region and around the world,” said Christine McNab, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq and the Resident Coordinator / Humanitarian Coordinator. to promote corporate social responsibility is a matter the whole world recognize it and its importance as a positive in countries where private sector is seeking to do the events of a positive impact on economic and social development.
VietFinanceNews.com – Vietnam’s economy will grow by 5.9 percent this year and foreign reserves will increase by US$5 billion, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said during a meeting on the country’s macro-economy in 2011.
Addressing the business community at the meeting, the Prime Minister admitted that the country’s economy is in difficulty but it has managed to gain considerable results.
He said economic growth in the first three quarters of this year was in an upward trend, and the full-year growth was expected to be 5.9 percent compared with the 6-percent target, which he said was “acceptable” amid economic difficulties.
Finance House expects recycling large amounts of current year budget
15/10/2011 16:12
Baghdad, October 15 / October (Rn) – The Finance Committee, the parliamentary Saturday belief that large sums of money allocated to the provinces and ministries during the current year budget will take place on the budget next year, indicating that rates of completion of projects to the provinces and ministries do not “send optimistic.”
A commission of economy and investment in the parliamentary earlier received a report from the government shows that some of the ministries and the provinces did not happen, only 5% of its own funds for the current year up to July 30 last year.
\Zia and immortality of the Caliph Ziadi / However: many political differences under the Dome of the Iraqi Council of Representatives to make laws in the legislation is very difficult, after years of full legislative council ended without legislation, the most controversial bills.
Laws Almthren controversial one deferred since the previous legislature, a bill of the Federal Council, which is trying some political parties that make it an alternative to the project policy board of the controversial and which was agreed on the legislative part of the Convention on Arbil, which produced the formation of the current government peshmerga Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
NEW YORK: The United States must stand up to China to prevent Beijing from taking unfair advantage in trade through its currency policy, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today.
“They continue to try to game the system to their advantage and our disadvantage,” Clinton said after a speech to The Economic Club of New York.
“I think it’s appropriate and fitting and timely for us to be standing up and saying, ‘This is not acceptable.’”
On: Sat 10/15/2011 9:31
After the end of the second legislative term of the House of Representatives and the start of the holiday, which will last until after the Eid al-Fitr, and because of the large number of laws and proposals in the agenda of the House of Representatives, where more than (70) law and a proposal was read a first reading,
And over (40) I read the second reading of a law, and (80) in advance of the proposed law on the various government institutions and the legislature.
Baghdad (news) .. Said the leadership in the movement of the solution MP / coalition in Iraq / Ziad worldwide abolition, that the Iraqi nominate two names new to the Ministry of Defense, indicating that Nujaifi did not put names to the Ministry of Defence in isolation from Iyad Allawi.
The House of Representatives has voted by majority to give confidence to the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki without the security ministries on 21 December last year.
On: Sat 10/15/2011 9:06
Baghdad (news) .. A member of the state of law and MP / National Alliance / Jawad Albzona, the agreement obtained between Maliki and Najafi resolving security ministries on the condition that the Najafi, not Ayad Allawi, nominated contacts and agree-Maliki on a candidate Najafi Department of Defense, saying Maliki’s refusal to for all candidates of the Iraqi former Ministry of Defence.
Because of concerns resulting from the classification the U.S. and European debt crisis of Baghdad (Reuters)
A report by economist who specializes the global equity markets and the Gulf recorded the worst performance in the third quarter of 2011 due to concerns arising from the reduced credit rating of the United States and the crisis of sovereign debt in the euro area and its potential impact on the growth of the global economy and declining growth rates in China and India and the weakness of the manufacturing sector in America, Britain and the euro area.
called on the economy and investment parliament to rewrite the budget year (2012), giving priority to investment projects, loaded with political influential people in government to exacerbate the phenomenon of unemployment in Iraq.
A member of the Committee and MP / National Alliance / Abdul Hussein Resan, in statement (of the Agency news) on Saturday: How can the government take (70%) of the budget (2012) to wages and salaries compared to the allocation (30%) of them to balance investment in the country destroyed its infrastructure and deteriorated by the service sectors and the economic vitality and suffer from multiple crises as a result of wars and international conspiracies continuing it.
On: Sat 10/15/2011 12:48
Baghdad (news) .. Back Member of the Knesset Finance and MP / National Alliance / Abdul-Hussein al-Yasiri, increase trading volume for the stock market (82) million to one billion dinars successful step for the future of the Iraqi economy.
Yasiri said in a statement (for the Agency news ) on Saturday: The increase in trading volume in the market (82) million dinars boiled billion dinars a positive step and good for the future of the Iraqi economy, noting that the market still needs to control BSA to raise the level of performance piece and the continued increase in the volume of exchange.
The MP said the coalition of state law on Alfalh, the application of Article 140 does not need the approval of his coalition to rule it approved by the Iraqi constitution, stating that the partnership with the Kurdistan Alliance strategy.
The MP said the Alfalh told (Voices of Iraq) that “the application of Article 140 does not require the approval of the rule of law as a rule approved by the Iraqi constitution,” describing the “National Alliance, talks with Kurdish positive.”
Confirmed member of the House of Representatives the past that he occasion of World Poverty Day, which will be on Monday has been allocated an amount of [1.7] billion dollars from the budget in 2012 to finance projects for poverty and mitigate the phenomena of poverty in all provinces in Iraq, not subject to reallocation to other sections.
15/10/2011 11:08
Baghdad, October 15 / October (Rn) – was announced on Saturday, the formation of a new political bloc in Iraq called the (mass correct the course of the political process) and consists of members from the various menus to correct its errors, the political process and amend the constitution.
A founding member of the member of a cluster solution Almnzawah the Iraqi List, a full-Dulaimi, told the Kurdish Onabaakaneoz) “We announce today the starting composition of the new block, called a correction of the political process and amend the Constitution, and includes its members, members of the lists a variety of the House of Representatives of Iraq.”
Hold many of the specialists in the economic hopes on the investment law to attract more investments to Iraq, but they at the same time emphasize the importance of marketing investment laws to major international companies and industrialized countries and commercial markets in order to show as much as possible of investors, capital and companies, and confirms the economists that investment laws of Iraq and one of the best laws for attracting investment in Almtqh,
Said spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, Major General Buchanan that the American flag will disappear for all U.S. bases in Iraq by the end of this year. And he said in an interview with the (morning) that “the withdrawal is in accordance with the security agreement signed between Iraq and the United States, as it will withdraw troops and mechanisms within the table time and place to be a military presence is zero on the final day of this year. “
And he was handed over bases of Baiji and Mosul last week, and decreased the number of bases that were occupied by troops of 69 base over the past year to 23 base.
A member of the State of Law and the National Alliance MP Jawad Albzona, the agreement obtained between Maliki and Najafi resolving security ministries on the condition that the Najafi, not Ayad Allawi, nominated contacts and agree-Maliki on a candidate Najafi Department of Defense, saying Maliki’s refusal to all candidates, former Iraqi Defense Ministry. The House of Representatives has voted by majority to give confidence to the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, without the security ministries on 21 December last year.
