Archive for February 2, 2012

Committed Central Bank of Iraq, Thursday, all Iraqi banks participating in the auction to disclose its customers to obtain foreign currency, attributing the cause of the lack of sales of the currency during the past two days to the lack of definition of the buyer himself.

Iraq called on the United Nations to establish the Federation Council to be ancillary to the House of Representatives. This came during a conference of the Department of research in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, in cooperation with the United Nations mission, to help Iraq and the participation of heads of parliamentary committees and the number of deputies, university professors and intellectuals about the constitutional and legal framework of the Council of the Union, and ended Friday evening, where he called the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq for political affairs, Georgi Boston Iraq to direct the establishment of the Federation Council, which provided for the new Iraqi constitution, to be the second council within the legislative authority in the country.

American sanctions on Iran pose difficulties for Iraq because of its close economic ties with the Islamic republic, so Baghdad plans to seek a waiver from the US, the government spokesman told AFP.

Addressed the Economic Committee in the Iraqi parliament, central bank official, to stop the sale and the dollar auction. Said Ahmed al-Alwani, Chairman of the Committee that the Committee addressed the central bank to stop the sale and auction of the dollar until the issuance of instructions that specify which authorities have the right to [...]

Happy Groundhog Day 2012

Posted: February 2, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics

Happy Groundhog Day wherever you are in the world

Denied a member of the parliamentary finance committee Ibrahim Rikabi possibility of money laundering and financial corruption Adareifa the process of deleting the zeros of the Iraqi currency

Central bank also unveiled a new policy to avoid the risk of the impact of currencies of neighboring countries on the Iraqi dinar exchange rate, because it has a cash reserve large hard currency.

Praised the MP for the mass of the citizen Hussain Abtan, the central bank steps to delete the zeros of the Iraqi dinar, pointing out that these steps be a greater impact on the Iraqi economy in the event of a court established within the plan.

Three positive signs have emerged on a page Kuwaiti-Iraqi relations in the last few days. Implications of these indicators that the issue of opening a new page and turn the page past all the whale it say black and tragic, and the right guaranteed by memories of the painful and accidents bleeding issue as possible.

Baghdad (news) .. Ruled out by the Economic Commission deputy / coalition in Iraq / Qusay Friday and a bleaching of the Iraqi funds during the current period, although there are operations to drain hard currency for the benefit of the neighboring countries.

Link: http://bit.ly/AgzPy5 Video: Economic Conference on Dropping of the Z…, posted with vodpod

The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 2-FEB-2012. The results were as follows:

Ministry of Planning announced on Thursday its intention to extend the five-year development plan for two more years until 2016, indicating that the political and security situation is “stable” was behind this extension.

Baghdad (news) .. A Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, a new policy with the central bank to avoid the risk of the impact of currencies of neighboring countries on the Iraqi dinar exchange rate, because it has a cash reserve large hard currency.

Palm – The media advisor to Prime Minister Ali al-Moussawi no objection Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to assume the existing Iraqi President Iyad Allawi, the Council of strategic policies, provided that does not contradict with the Constitution, stressing at the same time that al-Maliki will present during the national conference or a meeting of the three presidencies seen in the problems that face from the state, and how to address them.

Baghdad (news) .. lift speaker Osama Najafi parliament session to the next Saturday.

Baghdad (news) .. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the need to strengthen relations between Iraq and Algeria, thanking its position to topple Iraq’s debt and its decision to open its embassy in Baghdad.

Voters went Kuwaitis morning to the polls to cast their ballots in parliamentary elections which are being contested by two hundred and eighty-six candidates, including twenty-three women, a 50-seat parliament, and

KUWAIT, Jan 31 (KUNA) — Kuwait’s Minister of Finance and Minister of Health Mustafa Al-Shimali said Tuesday the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries were badly affected by the global financial crisis due to their interrelations with the oil-importing Western countries.

Follow-up – and babysit – reported “Iedenlk” that the leader of Turkish Kurdistan region of Iraq, “Masoud Barzani,” decided to announce the establishment of an independent Kurdish state could open the way for the historic results in the area but Talabani objected to the declaration of the State Independent current period.

BAGHDAD (Iba) .. It is hoped that Iraq participates in the meetings of Arab Forum – India to be held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in 28/02/2012 and represent Iraq in the meeting Aqeel Mandalawi Director General of Cultural Relations in the Ministry of Culture.

BAGHDAD, Feb. 1 (AKnews) – The government’s Economic and Investment Committee has objected to the allocation of infrastructure projects within the 2012 budget, claiming that not enough detail has been given.

The Council of Representatives, Thursday, its the 17 of the second legislative term of the second legislative year, headed by Speaker Osama Najafi, and the presence of 223 deputies, with a parliamentary source said that the meeting will vote on the five bills the most important legal residence of foreigners and to prevent the spread of weapons.