05-05-2013 10:38 PM
Baghdad (news) .. The head of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Ali Al-Rashed, said he would visit Iraq after the visit of the Prime Minister, referring to the Tzero bilateral relations between the two countries. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Saddam Hussein’
Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker: I will visit Iraq after the Prime Minister’s visit
Posted: May 6, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: al-Arabiya, Baghdad, Bilateralism, Invasion of Kuwait, Iraq, kuwait, prime minister, Saddam Hussein
New York Times suggests Maliki’s resignation will resolve most problems in Iraq
Posted: May 6, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Iraq, Maliki, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, United States
The New York Times: Maliki departure is alone capable of solving the problems of Iraq
05-05-2013 11:16 AM
The New York Times felt that the solution to Iraq’s problems lies in the resignation of Maliki’s responsibility.
The newspaper said in analyzing her about what the situation in Iraq, that Iraq is going through a serious crisis and that the solution lies in that step down the prime minister and replaced by another figure elected by Parliament, there are other Shiite politicians who are able to lead a government of national unity. (more…)
“Iraq suffers from absence of national unity”, says Samarrai
Posted: May 5, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Iraq, iraqi, middle east, Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, Iraqi people, Iraqi Islamic Party, Ayad al-Samarrai
Sunday, 05 May 2013 11:56 | | |
Baghdad (AIN) –The Secretary General of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Ayad al-Samarrai, pointed out that “Iraq suffers from the absence of the Uniting Iraqi Identity since a minority has believed in this aspect but many have rejected it.”
Samarrai called in an article received by AIN the Iraqi educated people to “Take their role in building the national identity on sound bases.” (more…)
Kuwait: Iraq still owes us reparations amounting to $11.2 billion
Posted: May 1, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Iraq, kuwait, middle east, Saddam Hussein, Umm Qasr, United Nation, United Nations Security Council
Kuwaiti government called on Iraq to continue paying 5% of its oil revenues to the Compensation Fund to ensure payment of all damages incurred by him on a regular basis.
Indicated it was waiting for the arrival of the rest of the compensation amounting {11.2} billion dollars after receiving inflated $ 2.43 billion in compensation since the beginning of the year. (more…)
Kuwait senior official expects Iraq to emerge from CH VII early 2014
Posted: April 29, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Chapter VII, Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Iraq, Iraqi Airways, Iraqi people, kuwait, Saddam Hussein, United Nations Charter
Kuwait expects to exit Iraq from Chapter VII in 2014: this is what we sought him since the fall of Saddam
MONDAY, APRIL 29 / APRIL 2013 08:59
Expectation senior official of the Kuwaiti government, on Monday, Iraq would emerge from Chapter VII early next year, stressing that Kuwait has sought since 2003 to improve the image of the Iraqi people.
Said Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak said in remarks seen by “Twilight News”, “expect to come out of Iraq under the threat of sanctions imposed on it in accordance with Chapter VII, starting next year.” (more…)
Voter participation ratio up to 51% in Iraq’s provincial elections
Posted: April 21, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Governorates of Iraq, Independent High Electoral Commission, Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Saturday, Sunni Islam
Saturday, 20 April 2013 21:53 | | |
Baghdad (AIN) -The Independent High Electoral Commission announced that “The ratio of the participation in the general and the special voting across the Iraqi provinces included within the general polling of the local elections is up to 51%.” (more…)
Maliki Announcing an end to the problem of the demarcation of the border with Kuwait
Posted: April 14, 2013 in Iraq: Chapter VIITags: Basra, Gulf War, Iraq, kuwait, Kuwaiti, Saddam Hussein, Umm Qasr, United Nation
SUNDAY, APRIL 14 / APRIL 2013 13:45
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, announced the completion of the demarcation problem between Iraq and Kuwait, and apologized to the Kuwaiti people for the recent incident that took place on the border between the two countries.
Maliki said in an interview with the newspaper “Al-Ahram” Egyptian seen by “Twilight News”, “The problem of the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait have been completed,” describing relations with Kuwait are evolved to a large degree, Kuwait commends this. (more…)
Iraq Oil and Energy Commission may resort to international arbitration in the case of shared oil fields with Kuwait
Posted: April 10, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Foreign minister, House of Representatives, Iraq, kuwait, Kuwaiti, Saddam Hussein, Safwan, United Nation
Parliament alludes to international arbitration to resolve the problem of joint oil fields with Kuwait
04/10/2013
BAGHDAD / JD / .. Confirmed to the Commission on oil and energy in the House of Representatives that he could resort to international law to resolve the problem of the common fields with Kuwait. (more…)
Kuwait announces Iraq has completed maintenance of border signs
Posted: April 4, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Iraq, kuwait, middle east, Saddam Hussein, UN Security Council, United Nation, United Nations Security Council
Kuwait: the completion of the maintenance of border signs with Iraq
04-04-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)
Director of management follow-up and coordination in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait Ambassador Khaled Moghames for the completion of the maintenance of border markers between Kuwait and Iraq. (more…)
UN Kobler: Completion of border maintenance work will be “major milestone” in normalizing Iraq, Kuwait relations
Posted: March 26, 2013 in Iraq: Chapter VIITags: Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi security forces, kuwait, Martin Kobler, Saddam Hussein, Umm Qasr, United Nation
21/03/2013 | 09:13 PM | Kuwait News
UNITED NATIONS, March 21 (KUNA) The UN special Envoy for Iraq Martin Kobler on Thursday said that the “major milestone” for normalizing relations between Iraq and Kuwait will be the “completion of boundary maintenance work,” which “must be done” before the end of this month.
“I have mentioned the progress achieved towards the normalization of relations between Iraq and Kuwait, including through Iraq’s positive steps towards fulfilling its remaining obligations under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. A major milestone in this process will be the completion of boundary maintenance work,” Kobler told the Security Council in an open meeting to discuss the work of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) which he heads. (more…)
Iraqi citizens of Umm Qasr will have peaceful protest over demarcation plans with Kuwait
Posted: March 24, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Basra, Iraq, iraqi, Iraqi Airways, kuwait, Saddam Hussein, Umm Qasr, United Nation
Iraqis are angry camping near Kuwait to protest against the demarcation of the border
SUNDAY, 24 MARCH / MARCH 2013 16:38
Iraqi rejectionists intends to file the demarcation of the border between their country and Kuwait tent encampments expression of their rejection of the controversial demarcation.
Before Iraq officially United Nations demarcation of the border in 1994 after the first Gulf War when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. (more…)
Editorial: The Iraqi economy from bad to worse
Posted: March 12, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Economy of Iraq, Iraq, Iraq War, iraqi, Iraqi people, Politics of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, United Nations
11/03/13 09: 27
Don’t imagine the Iraqis in 2003, even opponents of the current political system, to go 10 years without improved even slightly on the economic situation after at least $ 700 billion from oil revenues. They said that if the economy and infrastructure in worse shape than they were 10 years ago.
And the Iraqi economy suffers from a clear lag because of rampant corruption in all its facets by taxed by the State and hampered development plans and economic visions that would improve the country’s economy and make it among the economically advanced countries as observers of economic opinion. (more…)
March 2013 SIGR Report: Government Agencies Cannot Fully Identify Projects Financed with Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds
Posted: March 6, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: George W Bush, Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, SIGIR, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, United States
Introduction
Following the 2003 intervention in Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, the United States initiated a major relief and reconstruction program to stabilize the country, rehabilitate the economy, provide a secure and safe environment by recruiting and training Iraq police and military forces, and provide for humanitarian and emergency relief, among other objectives.
Over the last nine years, the United States provided billions of dollars for thousands of projects funded and managed by multiple federal agencies.1 (more…)
US documents: Saddam Hussein wanted the wealth of Kuwait to fund nuclear weapons
Posted: March 2, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Gulf War, Iraq, Israel, kuwait, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, United States, US Department of Defense
Date: Saturday 03/02/2013 07:47 pm
Revealed confidential military documents to the U.S. Department of Defense, that Saddam Hussein sought in invasion of Kuwait to acquire wealth to finance and acquire nuclear weapons.
The documents said that Saddam Hussein «had wanted to use the wealth of Kuwait to speed up the acquisition of nuclear weapons and chemical and biological weapons, to expand and improve the stock of ballistic missiles », indicating that« it was likely after the occupation of Kuwait moving to Saudi Arabia ». (more…)
Members of Foreign Relations Committee rule out Iraq’s chances of emerging from Chapter VII this year
Posted: February 17, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Ban Ki-Moon, Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Iraq, kuwait, Saddam Hussein, United Nation, United Nations Security Council, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Excluded the Foreign Relations Committee parliamentary exit Iraq from Chapter VII of this year, and explained the reason for this to the presence of wills Foreign trying obstruction rid Iraq of this punishment because of its reservation on the new political order in the country.
said committee member Imad John told the “long” The “dialogues and steps between Iraq and Kuwait to emerge from Chapter VII slow-moving”, pointing out that the size of big differences left by the former regime, the two countries have caused delay our exit from this punishment International. (more…)
Cabinet unlikely to find funds smuggled in during the former regime
Posted: February 1, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: al-Iraqiya, Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, Fadel Muhammad, Iraq, iraqi, Iraqi government, kuwait, Saddam Hussein
31/01/2013 09:15
BAGHDAD / Bri Center for the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) – ruled out of the Council of Ministers, on Thursday, found the Iraqi funds that escaped by the former Iraqi president to foreign countries before 2003 being recorded fictitious names.
The legal advisor to the Prime Minister Fadel Muhammad’s (IMN) that “a committee was formed by the foreign and finance ministries and legal advisor to the Prime Minister to investigate the amount of money that fled before a fall by former president,” explaining that “the Commission ruled to find those amounts being registered fictitious names. ” (more…)
An economic point of view: Iraq’s external debt and the right of Disguise
Posted: December 30, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Gulf, Iraq, Iraqi government, kuwait, Saddam Hussein, Soviet Union, United Nation, United States
12/29/2012 (23:00 pm)
The accurate diagnosis of the nature of Iraq’s foreign debt is necessary and vital to know whether this indebtedness huge match with the standards of international lending and with the requirements of Iraq to the economic and social development or is it that these loans remained on its way and used the previous regime in the projects aggressive and objectives inhumane, and therefore applies properties debt unpleasant that have no entitlement in international law and become a non-binding Iraq to repay foul as debts owed by the former regime. Countries Gulf and the imperialist countries, particularly the United States has pushed the tyrant to wage war crazy and supplying money and weapons to توريطه in a dirty war to serve Western interests and weaken Iraq and turn it into a consumer market for weapons Bank. (more…)
Center for Global Studies criticizes Iraq desire to borrow from the World Bank; Despite large oil revenue growth and stability poverty on the rise
Posted: December 20, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Economy of Iraq, Iraq, Iraqi government, Oil reserves in Iraq, Politics of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, World Bank
12/20/2012
Criticized the “Global Center for Development Studies,” the Iraqi government’s desire to borrow $ 900 million from the World Bank, despite the continuous rise in Iraqi oil revenues during the recent period, which did not succeed in reducing the number of poor Iraqis whose numbers swelled to 8 million citizens. (more…)
Maliki: Iraq, Kuwait committed to close outstanding issues between both countries
Posted: December 1, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, Iraq, kuwait, Kuwait Airways, Kuwaiti, Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq, Saddam Hussein
Maliki says Iraq, Kuwait committed to close outstanding issues
Date : 01/12/2012
BAGHDAD, Dec 1 (KUNA) Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki said on Saturday that there is a joint Iraqi
Kuwaiti will to end and close all outstanding issues between the two countries, underscoring that his Kuwaiti
counterpart’s upcoming visit to Baghdad “will contribute to the resolution of many outstanding issues
between them.” (more…)
Iraqi Ministry of Planning discusses the 5-year development plan; Announces completion of Arbil finalized
Posted: November 17, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Arbil, Iraq, Iraqi government, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdistan Regional government, Politics of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, United Nations Development Programme
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 2 / NOVEMBER 2012 19:10
The Ministry of Planning in the Iraqi government held its second five-year National Development Plan 2013-2017 in collaboration with USAID and the United Nations Development Programme for a period of three days. (more…)
Oil-rich Iraq becomes World Bank target for contributions
Posted: November 11, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: al-Arabiya, Central bank, Georgetown University, International Energy Agency, Iraq, National Defense University, Saddam Hussein, World Bank
With its oil output expected to continue to rise, Iraq has become the World Bank’s target for financial contribution.
Deputy head of Iraq’s Central Bank said last week that the World Bank asked Iraq to become a donor state by 2014.
But with the myriad challenges facing a country ravaged by years of war, Iraq is likely still far from being able to help others. (more…)
Kuwait Times: Time ripe for cementing Kuwait-Iraq relations
Posted: November 7, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Iraq, Iraqi University, KJA, kuwait, Kuwaiti, Lami, Saddam Hussein
KUWAIT: In a first of its sorts, the Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA) on Tuesday hosted a conference along with a delegation of the Iraqi media in an event that was the highest level of media interaction between the two countries since the turbulent events of 1990. The Iraqi media delegation’s members, for most of whom it was their first visit to Kuwait, expressed their happiness at the event held on the KJA’s premises and said they were pleased with the warm welcome they received in Kuwait. (more…)
Fox News: Blair says Iraq’s economy is thriving since 2003 invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein
Posted: November 5, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, British Armed Forces, Iraq, London, middle east, Monday, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair
LONDON – Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that British forces should be proud of their role in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, citing what he claimed was major social and economic progress since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003. (more…)
Ahmadinejad postponed his visit to Baghdad for unknown reasons
Posted: November 5, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/PoliticsTags: Baghdad, iran, Iraq, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Shatt al-Arab
11/05/2012 – 07:31
Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Danaii fled, Monday, the postponement of the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iraqi capital Baghdad without explanation.
And said Danaii fled in a statement quoted by the Fars news agency, “The visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iraq was delayed from a scheduled,” likely “to be in the next month.” (more…)
