The UN Security Council has called on Iraq to step up efforts to normalise ties with neighbouring Kuwait, still recovering from the Saddam Hussein-era invasion.
UN envoys are looking for greater progress in helping pin down the fate of Kuwaitis and other foreigners missing since the 1990 war.
Property and most of the Kuwaiti national archives also remain missing. (more…)
By David Ignatius, Published: December 14
Maliki’s visit to Washington this week has been a time for taking stock of Iraq eight years after the U.S. invasion. What did America achieve in overthrowing Saddam Hussein and battling a stubborn insurgency? It brought a democracy, yes, but one shaped by the most basic and sometimes brutal facts of life — allegiance to tribe, sect, clandestine organization.
Iraq would emerge from the tutelage of the seventh item the most important thing aspired to Iraqis after the fall of the former regime, the item that was imposed on Iraq in 1991 and in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations after the war in Kuwait, and with the approach of the U.S. withdrawal seems to be Washington’s promises went unheeded in the country out of under the jurisdiction of this item as promised and participatory political harmony of interests between the U.S. and the Kuwaiti side, while others called for Washington to fulfill its promise and take him out of Iraq as soon as possible of this item.
The MP for the coalition of state law Mohammed Chihod the existence of harmony between the U.S. and Kuwait to keep Iraq under the tutelage of the seventh item is considered culpability significant Kuwait and America, describing the survival of Iraq under the item “thing is not reasonable” and he did not pose a threat to the region through his new government based political dialogue, based on the principles of non-interference in internal affairs of neighboring countries in the region and help resolve the crises. (more…)
Iraqi politician: U.S. plans (seriously) to make Kuwait a province nineteenth
13/12/2011 19:48
Iraqi politician claimed that the Americans are planning to return Kuwait to Iraq after he failed to convince the political factions to maintain their bases in Iraq.
He said the Iraqi political, who holds a senior post in the government, that the Americans are conditioned to restore Kuwait to Iraq that Kuwait and the islands base eternal for U.S. troops and Iraqi government will be in control of the Kuwaiti territory located between the (Safwan and Mutlaa) only to be used as ports on the Gulf, except for the islands (Warba and Bubiyan ) both located at the entrance to the port of Umm Qasr. (more…)
Parliament to raise its Saturday after the vote on six bills
raised the presidency of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Tuesday, meeting of the Council the ninth of the season the second year the second legislative to the day after tomorrow, Saturday, with parliamentary source that the meeting had to vote on six bills and end the first reading of the budget of 2012.
The source said in an interview for ” Sumerian News “,” House Speaker Osama Najafi adjournment of Parliament ninth of the season the second year of legislative second, held today, under his chairmanship and the presence of 247 parliamentarians to on Saturday (17 December, the current), “noting that” The session saw the vote electronically on Bill Second Amendment to the Law on the Ministry of Water Resources No. 50 of 2008 and submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the draft law on accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention of the Organization of Islamic cooperation to combat international terrorism and submitted by the Commission on Security and Defence. ” (more…)
SCHEDULED MEETINGS
Thursday, 15 December 2011
10.00 a.m. 6688th meeting Interim Security Council Chamber GA-TSC-01
1. Adoption of the agenda
2. Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan (more…)
Baghdad (news) .. a student member of the Liberal block of the Sadrist movement and MP / National Alliance / Jawad Jubouri head of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to give up to each other in order to resolve the outstanding problems between them.
Jubouri said in a statement (the Agency news) on Thursday : political leaders, especially the existing Iraqi President Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki give to each other in order to resolve the outstanding problems between them.
He added that the one who feels responsible Tjaa the political process and Tjaa Iraq must give up personal interests to the political process in the right direction, either from the stick to his views and demands, it will increase the gap and increases the problems. (more…)
Baghdad, 15 December / December (Rn) – The Iraqi government said Thursday it will not pay debts of Egyptian workers during the year.
The Economic Adviser in the government peace Quraishi, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), “the Iraqi government can not pay (wages) Egyptian workers due to lack of budget allocations in 2012, amounting to about $ 100 billion.” (more…)
12/14/2011 15:05
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Let the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq and United Nations Development Programme, Wednesday, a media campaign in Baghdad to raise awareness about the judicial system in Iraq, under the umbrella of the United Nations Development Programme “Support to the rule of law and justice in Iraq,” which is funded by the European Union, According to a statement of the UNAMI (UNAMI).
The statement has been received by the agency (Voices of Iraq) a copy of it today the media spokesman in the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraktar that “This campaign is aimed primarily at marginalized such as the poor, the weak and illiterate, victims of violence to introduce them to the judicial system in Iraq and emphasized that he was able to achieve justice transparent and to help them resolve their differences by going to the courts. ” (more…)
BAGHDAD (Iba) .. A source at the Iraqi Central Bank of the existence of sharp differences between the governor and some of the leaders of the Bank of the general managers.
The source, who did not disclose his name, told the independent press (Iba) said differences centered on what he described as corruption files related to appointments and high salaries, nepotism, in addition to the expulsion of some contract employees outside the bank.
He is also the subject of some controversy regarding the policy of the Central Bank of the current towards the other banks and currency auction conducted by the bank every day, without elaborating further details.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said on Wednesday that Iraq is looking forward for strengthening relations with the United States of America, through the Strategic Agreement concluded between both countries, confirming that along with the end of the 1st phase of the Agreement by the withdrawal of the US forces, the 2nd phase of the civilian nature, begins, covering all cultural and economic fields, “because, we in Iraq, are heading toward the implementation of gigantic projects, such as the Faw Port, the railways network and airports, thing that necessitates the return of Iraqi potential elements to their homeland.” (more…)
“The opportunities are unlimited”, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the audience at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Tuesday.
He was leading a high-level business delegation to the US as President Obama welcomed back some of the last of the American troops to pull out of Iraq. (more…)
Said the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Thursday, in the voting electronically to six bills during today’s session, the most prominent of which was a bill of accession by Iraq to the International Convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism.
He said the decision of the House of Representatives Mohammad-in an interview to “Sumerian News”, that “the House of Representatives voted electronically بجلسته the ninth held today morning, in the presence of 247 deputies, the second amendment bill on the Law of the Ministry of Water Resources No. 50 for the year 2008″, indicating that ” the council also voted on a bill the admission of the Republic of Iraq to the convention of the Organization of the Islamic cooperation to combat international terrorism.” (more…)
(AP) Updated at 7:55 a.m. Eastern.
BAGHDAD – After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead, 32,000 wounded and more than $800 billion, U.S. officials Thursday formally shut down the war in Iraq — a conflict that U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the price in blood and money, as it set Iraq on a path to democracy.
Panetta stepped off his military plane in Baghdad Thursday as the leader of America’s war in Iraq, but will leave as one of many top U.S. and global officials who hope to work with the struggling nation as it tries to find its new place in the Middle East and the broader world.
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57343370/u.s-to-officially-shut-down-war-in-iraq/
Auction number HY35 of government debt securities was a uniform price auction for IQD 150,000,000,000 par value of bills which concluded on 12-12-2011.
Total public IQD 243,000,000,000. Valid competitive bids totaled IQD 242,000,000,000 and valid non competitive bids totaled IQD 1,000,000.000 and The cut off yield (the highest yield of a successful bidder) determined by auction was 8.20%. (more…)
The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 15-DEC-2011. The results were as follows:
| DETAILS | NOTES |
| Number of banks | 29 |
| Auction price selling dinar / US$ | 1170 |
| Auction price buying dinar / US$ | —– |
| Amount sold at auction price (US$) | 142,134,000 |
| Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) | —– |
| Total offers for buying (US$) | 142,134,000 |
| Total offers for selling (US$) | —– |
