Archive for November 3, 2011

Major Iraq conference to be held in Cyprus; Iraq Defense & Security Summit Dec 7-8

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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IRAQI Defence Minister, Saadun Al-Dulaimi will lead a delegation of up to five other ministers and 35 senior officials to participate in the inaugural Iraq Defence & Security Summit 2011 in Cyprus on December 7-8, it emerged yesterday.

The officials will also include the Chief of Staff, General Babakir Zebari and the heads of the navy and air force.

Accompanying the Minister will also be the Ministers of Interior, National Security, Communications, Science & Technology and Transport as well as their counterpart ministries from the Kurdistan Regional Government, reports from Iraq said. (more…)

Iraq is making great strides in the field of e-governance

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Activities of the workshop started to informatics training program leading national e-governance in Baghdad under the auspices of the Minister of Science and Technology Abdel Karim al-Samarrai.

A statement of the ministry received the news agency of public opinion (and babysit) a copy of a member of the Ministerial Committee for Corporate Governance electronic and Director of the Department of Information Technology in the ministry, Dr. Mahmoud Qasim Sharif, as saying that the workshop was held for the initiative by the Minister for Training (10000) employees of the departments of the upper and middle of the local and central governments and the provinces and all that comes out through (40) an employee as an expert rests on their launch article for the National e-Governance concepts and put diction and mutual understanding with the citizens at various levels and geographical patch includes most of the ministries and provinces. (more…)

Upcoming UNSC dates regarding Iraq

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Item 1: UNAMI report due November 25, 2011

Item 2: Iraq-Kuwait (missing persons and return of property) December 10, 2011

When: 10 December 2010 (Assumed typo..should read 2011 not 2010)

Relevant Security Council decision: Letter from the President of the Security Council dated 12 July 2010  (S/2010/378) (more…)

Reuters: IFC plans to inject $800m into Iraq private sector

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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A senior official at the IFC investment arm of the World Bank yesterday it aims to pump about $ 800 million, mostly in the energy and banks in Iraq over the next three years to help support development in the private sector.

and said Rashad Chaldean Vice President of the Foundation will be allocated between 300 1.0005 million million of capital projects for the collection of the gas currently being flared in oil fields. (more…)

IFC (World Bank) plans to inject $800m in Iraq’s energy and banking sector

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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IFC considers that the financial performance and bureaucracy behind impede development in Iraq 

Beirut , a senior official at the IFC, the investment arm of the World Bank, on Wednesday, the Foundation aims to pump about $ 800 million, mostly in the energy and banks in Iraq over the next three years, stressing that one of the biggest obstacles in the way of development in Iraq is bureaucracy and the poor performance of the financial sector.

The Vice-President of the Foundation Rashad Chaldean in a press statement, “It will be allocated among the 300 000 500 million from the Foundation’s capital projects for the collection of the gas being burned now in the oil fields,” adding that “what we aspire to over three years is to provide financing of about $ 800 million. ” (more…)

The largest global body (IFC) to declare support for the development of the Iraqi private sector $ 800 million

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Revealed a senior official at the IFC, on Thursday, the Foundation plans to pump for about $ 800 million, mostly in the energy sector and banks in Iraq over the next three years to contribute to the support of development in the private sector.

Rashad said Chaldean Vice President of the Foundation in a statement received “Twilight News” copy of “The IFC will primarily focus on the sectors of gas, electricity generation, banks and building materials as well as agriculture and housing.”

Iraq has received a lot of loans from international destinations in addition to the waiver of many countries for debts owed by Iraq in 2003 allocated Organization (JICA), the Japanese government, a cooperative organizations interested in helping countries in need, the amount of $ 3.5 billion in financial assistance to take mostly the form of loans to re- construction projects that included the pledge loan is funded by the sectors of health, tourism, oil, electricity, water and transportation .. Perhaps the latest loan is approved by the International Monetary Fund last March by about $ 250 million for economic development projects in government projects. (more…)

Nassif demanding the UN representative in Iraq to report on Iraq status from Chapter VII and stop construction of the port of Mubarak

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraq: Chapter VII
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On: Wed, 11/03/2011 11:16

Baghdad (news) .. called MP / Iraqi bloc white / high Nassif, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Martin Kobler to report to the UN on the issue of removing Iraq from Chapter VII and ask Kuwait to stop construction of the port of Mubarak.

and she told him the office media for a block received the Agency (news) on Thursday: “We must be the priority of tasks Kubler in Iraq to report to the United Nations calling for the implementation of the will of the Iraqi people in line with international conventions by addressing a border with Kuwait and remove Iraq from Chapter VII . ” (more…)

Iraqi House of Representatives cancels emergency session; Resumes Nov 20th

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Baghdad – House cancels its emergency and specify the twentieth of this month as the date for the resumption of its

Abolished the House of Representatives of the emergency meeting lack of quorum to convene.

According to the correspondent of all of Iraq [where] that “the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to cancel the contract emergency meeting that was scheduled for Thursday after the submission of requests by members of the Board of several blocks holding them due to lack of quorum, which must be provided to hold a meeting.”

He added that “the Presidency had set the day on Sunday 20 of this month as the date for the resumption of regular parliamentary sessions after the legislative recess.” (more…)

IBN: Troops Moving Out, Investment Moving In

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Troops Moving Out, Investment Moving InU.S. troops have begun the first wave of their final withdrawal from Iraq, and are on schedule for a complete pull-out by the end of the year.

It marks the end of a long military engagement in Iraq, at one time involving 176,000 military personnel in the country.

They leave behind them a very different country, and as they are moving out, even more investment is moving in. (more…)

Congress: We reject the UN resolution not to issue a civil government

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Rejected the circles of parliamentary and legal issue UN resolution states that no civil government, stressing that he would be “unfortunate” as the government was elected by the Iraqi people in free and fair elections under the supervision of the United Nations.

In the meantime, legal expert said: “The decision not to civil government should be the approval of the five permanent members and the approval of the UN Security Council. ” (more…)

IBN: Solution Reported over Hydrocarbon Law

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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In the ongoing conflict between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the federal government in Baghdad over the proposed new oil and gas law, both sides agreed to adopt the draft law that had been presented in February, reports AKnews, citing Ghadhban Fadel, head of the advisers committee in the federal government.

The announcement is a result of the ongoing negotiations between Baghdad and Erbil over three outstanding issues. On Tuesday, the delegation of Kurdish politicians, led by Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Ahmed Salih, and the representatives of the federal government agreed that joint committees are supposed to solve the disputes over the budget for the Peshmarga, the oil and gas law, and article 140 of the constitution. (more…)

Iraqi parliament fails to hold an emergency session of the lack of a quorum

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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03/11/2011 13:10

Baghdad, November 3 (Rn) – Iraqi Council of Representatives failed to hold an emergency session was scheduled on Thursday called for a block free of the Sadrist movement led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, for lack of quorum.

The Presidency of the Council of Representatives called for the convening of the special meeting today to discuss three main themes is that the federal budget, excluding the demands made by Sadr, the former government and the withdrawal of U.S. forces in addition to Turkish and Iranian shelling of border areas in the province of Kurdistan.

He said the head of the Liberal MP Bahaa al-Araji, a news conference in the House of Representatives: “We are sorry for the failure to meet the call made to the House of Representatives to attend the special meeting due to travel most of the members of the House of Representatives to perform Hajj, which led to lack of quorum.” (more…)

CBI presents a project to decode overlapping jurisdictions

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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03/11/2011 10:57

Baghdad, November 3 (Rn) – The Central Bank of Iraq, said Thursday that he had put a project to separate legislation, laws and overlapping jurisdictions in the government institutions that hinder the promotion of economic development and reduce the administrative bureaucracy.

The deputy governor of Central Bank of Iraq the appearance of Mohammed Saleh told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Central Bank will present a project on the Iraqi government to break laws intertwined that hinder economic development in the country and cancel your old that do not fit with the direction of Iraq for the expansion of investment projects.” (more…)

Ziadi: It has become necessary to nominate the names of the new Iraqi Ministry of Defense to resolve the crisis

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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On: Wed, 11/03/2011 14:23

Baghdad (news) .. The MP said / National Alliance / Faleh Ziadi that the field is still open to the Iraqi List, to provide candidates for the security ministries.

said Zayadra (of the Agency news) on Thursday that the security ministries are still a matter of dispute between state law and the Iraqis, but it does not mean that the issue has become is impossible. (more…)

Compensation Commission at the United Nations paid billion of fund Iraqi oil revenues to Kuwait.

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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02/11/2011 23:04:00

The independent Iraqi news agency – Nizar Latif agreed to the Compensation Commission at the United Nations to pay another billion of Iraq’s oil revenue fund for the benefit of Kuwaiti citizens

, Said the Compensation Commission at the United Nations, said the money will go to four companies and four government agencies and international. However, it did not reveal the identities of Almutalbeyen compensation, but said that all compensation claimants in Kuwait. (more…)

Kurdistan Region Inflation: Rising to the crazy prices (EID)

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Markets are the Kurdistan Region during this period, a substantial rise in the prices of meat and livestock to receive the day of Eid al-Adha because of the popularity of buy to meet the need of Muslims to sacrifice.

He suggested a number of specialists causes rise in the prices of live animals like sheep as a result of increasing demand every year before Eid al-Adha, but rise during this year began early and doubled their prices and reached high levels.

Point concerned the movement of the market and trade in the province that Kurdish citizens used to face the rising prices of livestock in this time of year because of the increasing demand for sheep in the sacrifice of Eid is that prices for this year is unusual as it is witnessing a big increase.

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CBI Daily Currency Auction Nov 3, 2011: $221.7 million

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 3 -NOV-2011. The results were as follows:

DETAILS NOTES
Number of banks 21
Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1170
Auction price buying dinar / US$ —–
Amount sold at auction price (US$) 221,750,000
Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) —–
Total offers for buying (US$) 221,750,000
Total offers for selling (US$) —–

Kurdistan: no right of any party to form a region in the provinces covered by Article 140

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Kurdistan Alliance bloc said on Thursday not to the possibility of forming regions in the provinces covered by Article 140 of the Constitution unless it is applied, indicating that the problem of the disputed areas would end if the application of the said article.

The MP for the coalition of Kurdish blocs Ashwaq dry in an interview with “Twilight News”, “The provinces covered Pttbak Article 140 of the Constitution can not announce the formation of regions at the present time, is not entitled to any party to claim that unless the normalization of the situation in the disputed areas it. “

(more…)

Deputy for Nineveh: federal project that is enshrined in the Constitution what the literal translation of the draft Biden suspect

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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MP for the WIN in the province of Nineveh, the Iraqi List, Ahmed al-Jubouri that the draft text of the federal Constitution, but what is the literal translation of the draft Biden suspect.

He expressed Jubouri asking, “at a press conference held at the Conference Palace in Baghdad Is Biden keen interest Saladin is secretary to the wealth of Anbar is prayed against hears the dignity of the people of Nineveh, which advocates claim that the draft provincial Badin Sikvlha. (more…)

Parliamentary source: the oil and energy working in the basement of Parliament wet without the Internet and control the fate of the largest in the world does not know of any wells is more important

Posted: November 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD – Abbas Zaidi
A source leading parliamentarian said in an interview with the “world”, said the Commission on oil and energy in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, which oversees the largest oil reserves in the world, working in conditions of miserable too, because they do not have sufficiently familiar with the reports of oil produced by news agencies, research centers, prestigious, and it derives its information from only the Oil Ministry, while a monopoly on recent data. (more…)