Archive for January 5, 2012

Foreign Relations Committee hosts the Under Secretary of State Haj Hamoud, looking for his relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Hosted the parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Al-Haj Hammoud to discuss the issue out of Iraq from Chapter VII and its repercussions.

The Committee discussed with Hamoud concepts emerge from Chapter VII Is it the interest of Iraq to resolve the obligations of a deal out of it once. (more…)

Baghdad, January 5 (Rn) – The Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki and Osama Najafi House on Thursday evening for their agreement on a ceasefire and media to stay away from statements convulsive. And confirmed the agreement on the basics of building for the next stage.

Comes to meet with Maliki and Najafi under the escalation of disputes between the coalition and Iraqi rule of law on the mechanism of state administration.

Intensified the split between the coalitions more after the issuance of an arrest warrant for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi al-Maliki in addition to providing a request to the House of Representatives requires isolating the Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq from office. (more…)

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Cairo, January 5 (Rn) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman on Thursday that the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey is making strenuous efforts to try to find a way out of the political crisis in Iraq.

Intensified the split between the coalitions more after the issuance of an arrest warrant for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi al-Maliki in addition to providing a request to the House of Representatives requires isolating the Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq from office.

Feltman said at a news conference after his meeting with Secretary-General of the Arab League in Cairo, Nabil el-Arabi, “we used our solution to this crisis, where he went, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Iraq and talked with Iraqi politicians.” (more…)

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Baghdad (news) .. House of Representatives voted in the special meeting held under the chairmanship of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi, and attended by 192 deputies Thursday on three projects and proposals for laws.

A statement of the Council cited, press office and received the Agency (news) a copy of it on Thursday: that at the beginning of meeting initiated by any of the Holy Quran MP Fuad Masum, that the Kurdistan Alliance ended the boycott meetings of the Council after the visit of the delegation of the National Alliance, accompanied by MP Hussein al-Asadi, where emphasis was placed on respect for the place of the President, noting that the Attorney-Asadi asked to visit the President to clarify the situation on the background of his previous . (more…)

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BAGHDAD – Babinaoz (Reuters) – announced three deputies from the Iraqi List, The formation of an independent bloc within the list due to the policy that led deviated from the national project, and while they decided to return to the meetings of the House, asserted that many Iraqi MPs will join the new bloc.

The MP said the Iraqi List, Abdel-Rahman Alloizi during a press conference held today, the parliament building and attended by “Alsumaria News”, “I am with Deputies Ahmed Jubouri, Juma Ibrahim Khader, we decided to form a bloc and patriots in the framework of the Iraqi List,” attributing the cause to the “policy of some leaders of the menu that veered from its decree and purpose of its noble and its line of the national. ” (more…)

01/04/2012 18:47

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The head Jalal Talabani, Wednesday, at a meeting with the representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations on the importance of the rule of law and respect for his dismissal and the judiciary and the legal issues left to take its normal course.

He said a presidential statement that Talabani received in Sulaimaniyah on Wednesday afternoon of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Martin Kobler and the delegation accompanying him. (more…)

JANUARY 4TH, 2012 07:22 PM · POSTED IN NEWS (IRAQ & WORLD CURRENCY)
While confirming the importance of Congress’s upcoming visit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the State of Kuwait to start a new page of relations between the two, tops files to remove Iraq from Chapter VII and the port of Mubarak, the borders and the development of bilateral economic cooperation talks with Kuwaiti officials.

The MP count for the rule of law Mohammed commendable expected visit of the Prime Minister to Kuwait “important.”

He commendable “morning”, that “Iraq’s relationship with Kuwait is still suffering from the effects of old behind the dictatorial regime, especially the question of prisoners of war and out of Iraq from Chapter VII and the port of Mubarak, noting that these files will be among the priorities of Prime Minister’s visit to Kuwait.”

The most likely source of the coalition of state law that the prime minister visited Kuwait during the day, saying “morning” last week: that Maliki would discuss with the Emir of Kuwait and the Prime Minister ways to speed up the resolution of outstanding issues between the two countries and ways to develop relations and increase trade and investment cooperation.

For his part, MP for the Kurdistan Alliance, Sheriff Soliman: “This visit is necessary and important .. We hope to produce positive results,” noting that the relationship between Iraq, Kuwait, still suffers from some sensitivity because of the policies of the dictatorial regime.

And received the Prime Minister last week, a phone call from his Kuwaiti counterpart Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, where the new morning through communication, according to a statement issued by the Information Office of the Prime Minister Maliki’s call to visit Kuwait, expressing “its readiness to cooperate to resolve all outstanding issues between the two brotherly countries,” while the Prime Minister
emphasized his willingness to visit the State of Kuwait nearest soon as possible.

The main files that will be touched upon during the visit, the MP Ibrahim Rikabi: “The file port Mubarak, who hope to get it to a conclusion satisfactory to both parties and the border issue with the Kuwaiti side, in addition to the case of the fishermen would have the final part of the discussions the Prime Minister with the Kuwaiti side.”

In the meantime, praised the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Iraq to keep the application of UN Security Council resolutions, according to a report to the UN Security Council on Tuesday evening.

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Central Bureau of Statistics, Thursday, for the completion of the preparatory phase of the recent survey of the social and economic status of families in Iraq in 2012, noting that the survey will begin mid-month of January.

The Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement received “Twilight News” copy of “The Directorate of living conditions in the Central Bureau of Statistics concluded training courses for teams of field survey of the social and economic status of households in Iraq 2012″, noting that “the preparatory phase is the final stage before the direct implementation of the survey.” .
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VietFinanceNews.com – Experts of Singapore-based JP Morgan Chase Bank have predicted that the Vietnamese economy will achieve a higher degree of stability in 2012 than in 2011, thanks to the government’s tight policy which has started to bear results.

They also predicted that Vietnam’s inflation will cool down, the balance of payments will be better supported, and its foreign currency reserves will increase.

Vietnam’s trade deficit will be offset by overseas Vietnamese remittances and foreign direct investment, according to JP Morgan Chase.

The bank holds that the asset quality of banks remains one of the most worrying problems of the Vietnamese economy, even though the possibility of a crisis in the banking system is low at present.

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Thursday, 05 December / 2 January 2012 11:04

Demanded MP for the high-mass white Nassif government to develop the Iraqi coast, overlooking the Persian Gulf and to work on completing the port of Faw as soon as possible.

She said Nassif in a statement received by all of Iraq [where] a copy of it today that “the government to monitor all the possibilities for the purpose of completion of the port of Faw, rehabilitation and development of the Iraqi coast, overlooking the Persian Gulf by bringing in experts from developed countries specialize in this area.” (more…)

05/01/2012

The parliament intends to host Oil Minister Abdel Karim العيبي in order to discuss the oil and gas law. She said a member of the committee on parliamentary oil and gas, al-zirgani, that the parliament will host in the next few days, oil minister to talk about the new law and put the last touches on it.

Parliamentary sources, has declared earlier to reach a consensus in principle on a new and amended the law of oil and gas, which is a matter of controversy and between the central government and the government of Kurdistan region.

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New York / agencies – long expressed the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed his satisfaction for the continuation of Iraq transfer 5% of its oil revenues to the United Nations Fund for compensation according to the UN Security Council resolution. He stressed that at the same time the need for an assessment of the following account of the United Nations Fund for the Development of Iraq.

He said, at a time when evidence shows the existence of positive and show commitment to the Iraqi government obligations but only after an assessment of the following account of the United Nations Fund for the Development of Iraq can confirm this. ” (more…)

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed concern about the current political tensions in Iraq and urged all parties in the country to work to resolve differences peacefully through constructive dialogue and make some concessions, calling for the separation of powers and the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.

The Secretary-General said in a statement posted on the official website of the international organization that “differences continued to contribute to increasing insecurity in the country which has seen a series of bombings in recent times,”

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The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 5-JAN-2012. The results were as follows:

DETAILS NOTES
Number of banks 25
Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1170
Auction price buying dinar / US$ —–
Amount sold at auction price (US$) 279,100,000
Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) —–
Total offers for buying (US$) 279,100,000
Total offers for selling (US$) —–

HOUSTON — If Iran were to follow through with its threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit route for almost one-fifth of the oil traded globally, the impact would be immediate: Energy analysts say the price of oil would start to soar and could rise 50 percent or more within days.

An Iranian blockade by means of mining, airstrikes or sabotage is logistically well within Tehran’s military capabilities. But despite rising tensions with the West, including a tentative ban on European imports of Iranian oil announced Wednesday, Iran is unlikely to take such hostile action, according to most Middle East political experts

Read More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/business/oil-price-would-skyrocket-if-iran-closed-the-strait.html?_r=1