Posts Tagged ‘U.S. Embassy Baghdad’

Washington confirms 15,000 staff members will occupy embassy in Baghdad

Posted: December 10, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Said U.S. embassy spokesman Michael McClellan, Saturday, that the number of staff of the Embassy of his country’s current close to 15 thousand, pointing out that it was knowingly and consent of the Iraqi government, as pointed out that this number is similar to the number of employees at U.S. embassies in several countries.

McClellan said in remarks to a number of media, including the “Sumerian News”, “approximately 15 thousand is the number of employees at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq now, and any number of little information other than this number are the numbers are exaggerated,” noting that “this number is fixed and would be lowered in the future to be replaced Baracaan. ” (more…)

Senior Level US official to arrive in Baghdad in the coming hours

Posted: October 30, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Urgent .. Senior U.S. official arrives Baghdad in the coming hours

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Baghdad (news) .. Up in a few hours a senior U.S. official in Baghdad on a visit for a day or two.

A source at the Iraqi Foreign Ministry (of the Agency news) on Sunday: that a senior U.S. official will arrive in Baghdad over the next two-day visit or two.

The source, who declined to be official, who will arrive: he would meet immediately after the arrival of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, will also meet President of the Republic and then receives the President of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi, will also meet a number of political leaders.

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Biden in Baghdad soon to negotiations “secret” on the immunity

Posted: October 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Posted 22/10/2011 04:01 AM

BAGHDAD – Babinaoz: deliberate political circles reported an expected visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden to Baghdad to hold talks was described as “confidential” related to the position of Washington adheres to the requirement of granting immunity for its troops remaining in Iraq.

While not confirmed government sources and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the news, not denied by the same time, the MP for the Liberal bloc parliamentary Ali al-Timimi that attempts conducted by Biden is currently in secret with the government to urge them to agree to keep the number of American soldiers in Iraq after the end of the year outside the the framework of the training.

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AP: U.S. troops will leave Iraq with the exception of 160 military guarding the embassy

Posted: October 16, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Quoted by the Associated Press to a senior U.S. official on condition of anonymity as saying that all U.S. troops will leave Iraq after 2011, except 160 military to protect the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

The Agency, on Saturday, that the Pentagon was planning to keep the five thousand troops to train Iraqi forces and limit Iranian influence.

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U.S. Embassy in Baghdad: Washington has not made any public comment on Biden’s visit to Iraq

Posted: October 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, October 3 / October (Rn) – The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Monday, that the White House in Washington has not yet issued any statement about the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Iraq.

The comments by Iraqi officials have confirmed that the Vice President Joe Biden will visit Baghdad this month to discuss a U.S. presence in Iraq after the date of the withdrawal of its troops from the country at the end of this year.

The Maliki government is negotiating with Washington to keep the coaches after the American withdrawal date, but informed sources pointed to the faltering negotiations after Iraq refused to give coaches the Americans immunity from prosecution in Iraq.

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$100 million restored to Iraq’s DFI

Posted: August 16, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Restore $ 100 million from one of the symbols of the former regime
16/08/2011

Restored the integrity 100 794 000 dollars registered in the name one of the symbols of the former regime in the banks of one of the neighboring countries.

The authority said in a statement released yesterday: “The money returned was credited to the Development Fund for Iraq, which belongs to the Ministry of Finance in accordance with UN Resolution 1482 for the year 2003, “indicating” that the recovery of the money was in collaboration with the concerned authorities in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. “

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Iraq’s President, US Ambassador, discuss means to activate next meeting of Iraq’s Political Leaders

Posted: July 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s President, Jalal Talabani, and the U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad, James Jeffery, have discussed in Baghdad on Friday means for activating the next meeting of the Political Leaders to settle their current differences, a Presidency statement reported.

“President Talabani has discussed in a meeting with Ambassador Jeffery, at the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad on Friday, “the most important developments in the Iraqi politics and the current efforts to activate the next meeting by the Leaders of Iraq’s Political Forces, aimed at achieving agreement and to settle their current suspended issues,” the statement stated.

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Iraq’s oil is vital to global energy needs, US ambassador says

Posted: July 6, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The US ambassador in Baghdad said on Saturday that the State Department has asked for a $6.2 billion budget for Iraq in 2012, underscoring that its oil and gas reserves were critical for the world’s future energy needs.

“This country is on a glide path to increase its oil exports,” Ambassador James Jeffrey told reporters at the sprawling US embassy in Baghdad, the world’s largest.

The embassy plans to double in size next year to 16,000 personnel, when it takes over many military tasks after US troops pull out of Iraq at the end of this year, including military sales and training of Iraqi security forces.

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2012 US Budget: $6.2 billion requested for US Embassy in Baghdad

Posted: July 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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$6.2 billion budget for the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in 2012

Posted 03/07/2011

BAGHDAD (AFP): The U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, said the request for the 2012 budget for the Embassy of $6.2 billion dollars, pointing to the importance of these funds to assist in the development of Iraq, the country’s main dam in the global needs in energy.

Plans to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest embassy in the world, doubling the number of employees in 2012 to a 16-thousand employees, in order to take a number of tasks currently assigned to the soldiers of the 50 thousand Americans who are still in Iraq and Sagadrunh the end of this year.

Ambassador James Jeffrey, told reporters that “this country will increase its exports of oil. Now is to issue 2.3 million barrels a day, but this figure could rise to four million or six million barrels per day within four or five years.”

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U.S. ambassador: Washington decided to allocate two billion dollars to support the Iraqi security forces and prison

Posted: June 12, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, June 12 (Rn) – The U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Sunday, that the Government of the United States has allocated two billion dollars to support the Iraqi security forces and prisons, indicating that the statement made by members of the U.S. Congress from statements made by the need to push Iraq to the financial compensation due to loss of the U.S. military in Iraq does not represent the opinion of the U.S. administration.

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U.S. Embassy in Iraq: Congressional delegation visiting does not reflect the opinion of the U.S. Administration

Posted: June 12, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Saturday, the delegation of the U.S. Congress who visited Iraq on Friday does not necessarily reflect the position of the administration or the opinion of the majority in Congress.

A U.S. embassy spokesman in Baghdad, David Ranz in a press statement that the embassy bore the responsibility of hosting the U.S. congressional delegation that visited Iraq.

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MP Othman: Unannounced visits by U.S. confirm lack of respect for Iraq as a state

Posted: April 7, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Criticized the Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, Thursday, unannounced visits to U.S. officials in Iraq, saying such visits lack of evidence of the recognition of the United States of “Iraq as a state”, calling for the rejection of unannounced visits to the Americans.

And MP Mahmoud Othman said in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “surprise visits to U.S. officials in Iraq confirmed that the United States of America does not recognize Iraq as a nation,” noting that the United States if they recognize Iraq as a state of informed visits officials by sending envoys, as do the rest of the world ” .
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US State Dept and Iraq Foreign Ministry hold first meeting within Strategic Framework Agreement

Posted: March 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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State Department and the Iraqi government Hosted the first meeting within the Strategic Framework Agreement

Baghdad, 23 March (Rn) – The U.S. Embassy in Iraq on Wednesday, held for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Iraqi government’s first meeting of the Joint Coordination Committee for cooperation of cultural, educational and scientific cooperation between the two countries, within the Strategic Framework Agreement.

A spokesman for the United States Embassy in Baghdad Aaron Snape told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the State Department held its first meeting within the strategic framework agreement with the Iraqi government represented by the Minister of Education Mohammed Tamim,” adding that “the meeting was attended by the heads and representatives of groups of the Commission’s work on the American side “.

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