Archive for May 5, 2012

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Four of the most senior political leaders in Iraq’s fragile coalition have threatened to bring a vote of no confidence in the government unless “autocratic decision-making” stops, a letter published in a state newspaper on Saturday said.

Iraq’s Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurd coalition began to creak in December, after U.S. troops left, when the government tried to remove Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi.

Originally Posted 5/5/2012

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BAGHDAD, May 5 (AKnews) – The foreign relations committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives stated today that it will discuss the government report about the negotiations which were held recently in Baghdad between Iraq and Kuwait. (more…)

05/05/2012 12:58:24

BAGHDAD (Iba) … MP Sami al-Askari for the rule of law a member of the parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee that his committee will discuss the government report on the negotiations which were held recently in Baghdad between Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides. (more…)

05/05/2012 12:30
Businessmen Union stressed the importance of applying the customs tariff law to promote the reality production in the country.

The head of the Union is willing Blibl at a seminar hosted by the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform on Saturday and attended by “the gate of Iraq” that “the application of the customs tariff law is crucial and urgent to promote the reality production in the country.” (more…)

Erbil, May 5 / May (Rn) – The Iraqi List, the parliamentary faction of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Saturday that the existing requirement is to return to the basic terms of the Erbil and applied without selective.

The MP said the existing Hamza Alkrtani in a statement that “the demand base for the Iraqi list is to return to the terms of Erbil, which painted the size of the consensus and the policy of balance in government positions,” pointing at the same time that “the lack of implementation of the Convention by the prime minister helped to fuel the tension Relations between the political blocs. ” (more…)

05/05/2012 10:28
BAGHDAD, May 5 (AKnews) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been given only two weeks to implement the demands raised in the meeting of five Iraqi and Kurdistan leaders in Erbil on Saturday.

A week ago Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani and his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani met with Iraqiya List leaders Ayad Allawi and Osama al-Nujaifi as well as Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada Sadr in Erbil. (more…)

House of Representatives did not succeed Bdorth past and present the agreement to approve the oil and gas law and an end to the controversy continued for more than six years between Baghdad and Erbil and a number of provinces on the management of oil wealth.

The Commission’s decision to Kassem Mohammed told (UR) that “there is a consensus among the Iraqi List and the Kurdistan Alliance and the National Alliance of parties on the draft law of oil and gas, prepared by the Committee earlier that differ from the government in three paragraphs of the draft is important.” (more…)

Finance Committee approves abolition of pensions for members of local councils.And tomorrow is hosting Central Bank
Date: Saturday, 05-05-2012 02: 32 pm

Baghdad (newsletter) … Finance Committee approved in the Chamber of deputies to cancel pensions for members of local councils in the future. (more…)

Kuwait: The maintenance marks the border between Kuwait and Iraq require eight months
05 May, 2012 02:21:00
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Said the Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations, Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi after meeting Juma and his Iraqi counterpart Hamid al-Bayati. (more…)

Saturday 5 May 2012

(Reuters) – Member of Finance Committee warned the National Alliance MP Abdul-Hussein al-Yasiri the exposure of the Iraqi dinar for international war to weaken it, pointing to the importance of a plan by the Central Bank to combat speculators on the dollar and reduce its value. (more…)