Archive for February 15, 2012

On: Wednesday 02/15/2012 16:26

Baghdad (news) .. Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani in his office this afternoon, with the chief executive of trade and investment in the United Kingdom Nicholas Bird, ways to strengthen economic relations between the two countries and their development.

A statement from the Office Shahristani: that the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy He called on the British side to open branches of British banks in Iraq to facilitate the work of foreign companies operating in the country. (more…)

Baghdad, February 15 (Rn) – The Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers said on Wednesday it has decided to implement the national ID card project during this year worth $ 260 million.

A member of the Committee and Minister of Planning Ali Shukri, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Economic Committee in the Council of Ministers decided to add $ 260 million to the budget in 2012 to implement the national ID card project.”
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Currency spread fraud in Iraq .. Accusations directed at Tehran and central reassured as minor

is almost the heart of Riyadh burns he describes how he set twice before banking offices, which paid about half of the $ Hwalth dollars forged, and how that when he went to receive the transfer other Iraqi currency was falling into the same!. , says the citizen Riyadh Khalifa, 40 years old, which receives from time to time a sum of money from his brother, who live outside Iraq, “Alsumaria News”, “For me, I am a victim of fraud twice,” explains that a banking offices paid him the amount of transfer of $ 500, and later found to be $ 200, including a forged , he said, “With this office declined to banking compensatory amount counterfeiter.”

and follow the Khalifa “This was the first time that the fall in which a victim of the promotion of counterfeit currency, and for this I decided to receive the amount transferred from my brother in local currency, and was surprised later that the currency were not free from fraud is, too, “and stresses, stressing,” I still have two papers Mzortin of class 10 thousand dinars. ” (more…)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Announced the decision of the House of Representatives, Wednesday, the Council held additional meetings to speed up the approval of the budget this year, stressing that the allocations and requests the added delay caused approving the budget.

House of Representatives and discussed in its meeting held, on Tuesday, the budget bill, has asked some parliamentary committees allocate additional funds to the ministries and governmental bodies and institutions belonging to them.
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Araji: Today’s meeting was positive. The next Sunday the fourth meeting of the Preparatory Committee to meet the national
On: Wednesday 02/15/2012 13:50

Baghdad (news) .. He said the head of the Liberal parliamentary Bahaa al-Araji said the next meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the national meeting will be held on Sunday.

Araji said (of the Agency news) on Wednesday following the end of the third preparatory meeting for the national meeting: that today’s meeting was positive and we exchanged the working papers of the political blocs, and we agreed that the Constitution is a red line that can not be bypassed.

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15-02-2012

Began shortly before the third meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the national meeting of the political blocs, the headquarters of the Chamber of Deputies.

Parliamentary sources said (Agency news) on Wednesday: third preparatory meeting began shortly before and the presence of the speaker of the House of Osama alngivi and Vice-President khudair Al-khuzai and Deputy Prime Minister rose Nuri Shaways, a number of representatives of the political blocs in addition to the attorney representing the Turkmen Arshad Salhi.

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On: Tuesday 02/14/2012 22:11

BAGHDAD – Ismail Hakki Speaker announced that Osama Najafi of the Presidency of the Council decided that on Thursday the last day to discuss the draft budget law and budget reports on the Judicial Council.

A statement from the House of Representatives received (citizen) a copy of it yesterday, the House resumed yesterday to discuss the draft law of the federal budget for 2012.

Calling on the Finance Committee presidency of the Council to set a timetable for the vote on the budget and urged parliamentary committees to contribute to the cured, noting that the amendments to the government on the budget do not affect them, explaining that the Commission did not find until now, the doors can be reduced in order to increase pensions and social protection network and the demands of actors and other ministries. (more…)

Erbil, February 15 (Rn) – The vice-president of the Iraqi parliament on Wednesday that the House is making a special effort for the success of the upcoming national meeting of Iraqi political blocs.

This came during a meeting with Arif Tayfur, a delegation from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad headed by Douglas Silliman any Minister Delegate for Political Affairs. (more…)

Baghdad, February 15 (Rn) – decided the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to double administrative penalties against the deputies of the parliament sessions of 500 thousand dinars for each day to one million dinars Presidency also intends to begin the replacement of the MPs who were absent more than ten consecutive meetings without a legitimate excuse.

The decision of the House of Representatives Muhammad Al-Khalidi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to impose a fine of million dinars for each day absent the MP for the sessions to vote on laws instead of 500 thousand dinars in order to reduce the phenomenon of absent deputies continuous sessions causing no quorum to convene. ” (more…)

Economic policy team, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ruz Nuri Shaways agreed on hiring Iraqis or foreigners economy experts from international organizations and economy university professors.

The team includes in its membership the Ministers of Finance, Oil, the Iraqi Central Bank Governor and Chairman of Supreme Audit. (more…)

The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 15-FEB-2012. The results were as follows:

DETAILS NOTES
Number of banks 18
Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1166
Auction price buying dinar / US$ —–
Amount sold at auction price (US$) 126,536,000
Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) —–
Total offers for buying (US$) 126,536,000
Total offers for selling (US$) —–

2012-02-15 10:32:02

Iraq (Iba) Follow-up / – The number of specialists in the economic and banking on the government to modify some brought by the law of private banks and consistent with the nature of the economic transformation of Iraq into the open market, noting that during the interviews that some of these decisions can not be meets the requirements of the current stage in Iraq to move to the steps of the local economy more.

The newspaper quoted the morning semi-official president of the Association of Iraqi banks Halawi appearance: The Banking Law No. (94) for the year 2004 needs to be reviewed in full, there are many variables that occurred in the country and in the work of private banks. (more…)

On: Wednesday 02/15/2012 13:57

Baghdad (news) .. According to the economist, Ismail Abdul Hussein that the high exchange rate of U.S. dollar against the dinar during the current period is a natural phenomenon due to the great demand for hard currency.

said Abdul-Hussein (of the Agency news) said on Wednesday: The central bank in control of the mass of the cash raised in the local markets and fears to increase the U.S. dollar against the dinar because the main control by the central bank. (more…)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

denounced the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Wednesday, statements made by officials in the Iraqi government, and threatened the international companies of oil and in particular my company the stricken Mobouapl and Total of the work in the Kurdistan Region, stressing that the oil and all the wealth of Iraq belongs to all building the Iraqi people.

Said Rose Nuri Shaways, in a statement reported for “Twilight News”, “some of the media picked up the recent statements by officials in the federal government relating to contracts my company the stricken Mobil and Total, operating in the Kurdistan Region in the field of oil, and raised these remarks the attention of local media and foreign numerous contacted student Todahatna Our view on the subject in this light. ” (more…)

Baghdad, February 15 (Rn) – The decision of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Wednesday, the Preparatory Committee meeting for the third national conference began on Wednesday, noting that it aims to get out of the paper a unified national conference.

The three main political blocs and the Iraqi National Alliance and the Kurdistan Alliance has made its cards prior to entering into the National Congress. (more…)

The auction No. C52 for Central Bank of Iraq bills based on a uniform price auction for IQD 150’000’000’000 par value was concluded on the 14-2-2012.

The total public bidding is IQD 426’000’000’000 and the cut-off yield (the highest yield of the  successful bidder) determined by the auction was 5.30%. (more…)

15/02/2012 01:42
Issued a Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issued a decree forming a new government includes ten new ministers include a change in my bag, especially oil, defense does not include any woman, came to form a government after less than twenty-four hours of the failure of talks between Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah and the opposition in order to involve more of the elected deputies in the government formation

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Iraqi government announced, Wednesday, that the relations of friendship and partnership was established with the United States of America, after the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, noting that the military had a negative impact on the development of relations.

A media adviser to Prime Minister Ali al-Musawi’s “Twilight News”, “now established partnership relations and friendship at all levels, industrial, commercial, technological, and economic, in addition to the areas of education and study,” adding that the Iraqi-US relations have become “better” after the withdrawal of U.S. forces at the end of 2011. (more…)

Date: Tue 02/14/2012 20:38

Continue drilling operations in the area of luxury Aldajh populated eastern Baghdad after the discovery of the existence of huge amounts of gold atoms of metal in the soil …

And continued exploration and drilling for more than two years in the region and under the street extending from Fudhaliyah until the end of al-Obeidi neighborhood, or so-called (Htit), a low water is used for the diversion of rain water in flood seasons.

Was raised thousands of tons of dust, which set aside in order to purification and extraction of gold atoms. (more…)

February 14, 2012

Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki will visit Kuwait ahead of a late-March Arab summit to try to improve ties still strained by Iraq’s 1990 invasion of the emirate, a statement released on Tuesday said.

The Kuwaiti ambassador to Baghdad “Ali al-Mumin on Tuesday renewed an invitation for the prime minister to visit Kuwait soon,” the statement on the website of the premier’s office said. (more…)